Latest Russian version of Chess by Maizelis

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narnys

Does anyone know if the most recent (2016, I think) Russian language hardback edition of Chess by Ilya Maizelis (Шахматы - И. Майзелис) contains the photos and other bits and pieces that used to be in the 1960s edition and has been left out of the 2014 "Quality Chess" English language paperback version?

CKLG

The Soviet Chess Primer (Chess Classics) Paperback – March 7, 2015
by Ilya Maizelis (Author), Mark Dvoretsky (Foreword), Emanuel Lasker (Foreword)

narnys

Thanks CKLG.

I have the 2015 paperback English translation. I really love the book and would like to get a hardback version which has the more extensive content. I'd like to know, before I go trying to track one down, whether the Russian 2016 hardback edition has the original 1960's content: photos of players, history etc. that's been removed from the 2015 English paperback. I'll struggle with the language (to put it mildly!) but I'd just like to own a copy - in some ways I even prefer that it's in the original tongue.

CKLG
narnys 写道:

Thanks CKLG.

I have the 2015 paperback English translation. I really love the book and would like to get a hardback version which has the more extensive content. I'd like to know, before I go trying to track one down, whether the Russian 2016 hardback edition has the original 1960's content: photos of players, history etc. that's been removed from the 2015 English paperback. I'll struggle with the language (to put it mildly!) but I'd just like to own a copy - in some ways I even prefer that it's in the original tongue.

 

I have just checked the 2015 English version, the 1960 Russian version and the 2016 Russian version. The 2015 Eng version and the 2016 Rus version have the same contents.

The picture below is the table of Contents of the 1960 Russian version, the contents in the red box are missing in the 2015 Eng and 2016 Rus versions, and the photos of players are gone as well.

 

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narnys

A big thank you CKLG for going to so much trouble. That has answered my question completely. I'll try to track down a 1960s hardback Russian version.

CKLG
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/the-soviet-chess-primer/
quadibloc

So the parts that are missing are:

In Book Two, starting at page 239, the systematic course in the openings. This could be reasonable on account of the material being dated; extensive revision, amounting to writing the section over again, would be needed to bring it up to date.

All of Book Three is omitted. This is a short history of Chess; it starts with section 1 on Chaturanga and Shatranj, goes on up through section 9 on Emmanuel Lasker and section 10 on Capablanca, and then continues with section 11 on Alekhine and section 12 on the Soviet school of chess.

Again, I suppose that omission is forgivable; the English speaker has access to what is presumably much better material covering the same territory.

The final group of omissions seems to be about material specific to being a chessplayer in the Soviet Union in 1960; details of what one must do to achieve the various norms, tables of how to pair players in tournaments.