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Old Russian/Soviet magazines (amd books) online....
These appear to be authors - with links to downloadable versions of their writings. I am questioning the legality of these, since all 5 of the "My Great Predecessors" (Kasparov) series are available for download in Russian. Maybe a Russian speaker could browse through some of the text accompanying these links and see if it sounds legit. Or start from the root directory at http://publ.lib.ru/publib.html Chess seems to be a tiny part of these archives.
If it doesn't look legal, I (or someone) will remove this post.
These appear to be authors - with links to downloadable versions of their writings. I am questioning the legality of these, since all 5 of the "My Great Predecessors" (Kasparov) series are available for download in Russian. Maybe a Russian speaker could browse through some of the text accompanying these links and see if it sounds legit. Or start from the root directory at http://publ.lib.ru/publib.html Chess seems to be a tiny part of these archives.
If it doesn't look legal, I (or someone) will remove this post.
No idea about the legality (I suspect since the magazines are no longer published, that is a moot point?)
For those who go diving in this huge treasure trove, the popular file format seems to be xxxxxx.djvu
This format is not as popular in 'the west' and many people will likely find Windows trying to open the file with a 'picture viewer' and that likely will fail.
I use a "pdf" viewer called Sumatra pdf viewer that can also open .djvu files
https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/ (highly recommended; very lightweight viewer for windows) Linux folks: you are on your own, but you knew that.
Re: Old Russian/Soviet magazines (amd books) online....
I noticed that some issues are not available for Shahmatny Bulleten for some years and that
sometimes the only available format is not .djvu but .pdf (the latter is usually a much larger file)... watch out
Re: Old Russian/Soviet magazines (amd books) online....
For the *.djvu files I use WinDjView.exe which, like Sumatra, also has a very small footprint (about 4.25 Mb). This archive looks to be a work in progress. As Kerry observes some magazines are missing. I also noticed some anomalies within the book section. For example, there are just four books by Karpov that I can see, but during his tenure as World Champion he was very prolific. Also, I don't see Bronstein's book on Zurich 1953 which seems odd to me. Still, it's a terrific resource. Thanks, Hugh!
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