Chess books in Russian

iru

Only Chess

30 May 07 07:33

iru

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30 May 07 07:33

I think Russian speakers can consider themselves quite lucky looking at amount of chess literature published in this language. There are plenty of books for download at webchess.ru/ebook/.
I am currently working on "Mittelspiel. Plan (middlegame)" by Romanovsky and "600 okonchanii (600 endgames)" by Portish and enjoy them a lot.

Korch

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Riga

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30 May 07 08:09

Originally posted by iru
I think Russian speakers can consider themselves quite lucky looking at amount of chess literature published in this language.

I agree. Most of my chess books (about 90😵 are in Russian.

GinoJ

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30 May 07 08:24

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Originally posted by Korch
I agree. Most of my chess books (about 90😵 are in Russian.

😵

Korch

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Riga

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30 May 07 10:49

Originally posted by Korch
I agree. Most of my chess books (about 90😵 are in Russian.

arrgh - I did mean 90%

irontigran

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30 May 07 17:30

theyre cheap on ebay...do they have many pictures?😳

Snakeye

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30 May 07 19:19

Spaszibo za link! 🙂

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30 May 07 19:25

If I could read Russian, that would be nice, but there are enough chess books in English that I don't feel too left out.

AlboMalapropFoozer

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30 May 07 20:33

Originally posted by iru
...I am currently working on "Mittelspiel. Plan (middlegame)" by Romanovsky ...

In 1990, American Chess Publications came out with the English translation (by Jimmy Adams) of "Chess Middlegame Planning". In 1991, the same publisher came out with an English translation (same translator) of Romanovsky's companion volume "Chess Middlegame Combinations". I have both books and recommend them.

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30 May 07 20:40

Originally posted by AlboMalapropFoozer
In 1990, American Chess Publications came out with the English translation (by Jimmy Adams) of "Chess Middlegame Planning". In 1991, the same publisher came out with an English translation (same translator) of Romanovsky's companion volume "Chess Middlegame Combinations". I have both books and recommend them.

One thing I AM thankful for is chess book translators. They're probably greatly underpaid for the work that they do.