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Shakhmaty-In-English (1)
September 6, 2020
I have been doing a continuing series on short-run chess magazines in English. Previous installments are:
SQUARES and Lasker & His Contemporaries
https://forum.chesstalk.com/forum/ch...contemporaries
American Chess Quarterly, Chessworld magazine & American Chess Journal
https://forum.chesstalk.com/forum/ch...-chess-journal
To the majority of ChessTalk readers, I am sure that listing each issue of a defunct magazine is not necessary and overkill. I agree with this. But, to a chess researcher, chess historian or collector it is a valuable resource. Most libraries with chess holdings only give a cursory listing of a magazine’s issues.
Shakhmaty-In-English
First of all, why the hyphens in the title?
The publisher thought this would uniquely identify his product. Now, with the Internet, if you do a google search for Shakhmaty in English, you will get a couple of relevant hits and then everything else you can imagine for the rest!
In my first bound volume, there is this cover page:
Shakhmaty-In English
(Shakhmaty v SSSR)
Volume I
1965-66
Hanon W. Russell, Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Christopher Becker, Translation Editor
James M. Bolton, Notation Editor
E.G. Cummings, Managing Editor
H.H. Herbert, Advertising Manager
P.O. Box 91, Woodmont, Connecticut 06460
An advertisement in Chess Life, June 1965, p. 132:
Shakhmaty
Now in English
- Games annotated by the leading Russians!
- Surveys of all great tournaments!
- Pictures-Reviews-Problems-Endgames-Opening Analysis-Brilliant Bits of Play.
The complete, unabridged editions of this outstanding Russian magazine will be published twelve times a year, in magazine form. Subscriptions will begin about July 1, 1965. The translation of the Jan., 1965 issue of “Shakhmaty” will be the – “Shakhmaty-In-English” first edition. One year: $11.00
Mail your check or M.O. to:
Shakhmaty-In-English
P.O. Box 91
Woodmont, Conn.
_______
In the listings below, I shall first give the issue and date of the English edition, then the equivalent Russian issue and date and finally, the abbreviated contents.
1. Shakhmaty-In-English I/1 July 1965
Shakhmaty v SSR 1 January 1965
FIDE Conference in Telaviv, Israel
Trud’s Strong Finish in the USSR Team Championship
From a Master’s Notebook – I. Kan
Everything Would be Perfect, if Only… M. Euwe
From the Pages of Magazines Abroad
Readers’ Criticisms
Coming Chess Events in Russia in 1965
New Year – New Books
“Burevstnik’s Championships
Should They Joust at Kharkov?
Under the Flag of “Trudovye Reservye”
Among Kiev’s Construction Workers
In the Capital of Daghkestan
Tournaments and Matches
Eight Positions (solutions)
This is Interesting
The Shadow Side of Correspondence Play
(Russian) Checkers
The Belgrade Tournament (October 1964)
A Week in Norway by Y. Averbakh
The Finalists have been Announced…
Problems and Studies
He was Forced to Resign
17 pages
2. Shakhmaty-In-English I/2 August 1965
Shakhmaty v SSSR 2 February 1965
Korchnoi Wins USSR Championship
The Olympiad by I. Boleslavky
Olympiads Past and Present
Chess – The Soldiers Favorite Game
With the Sailors of the Arctic Fleet
Introducing The Contestants – Old Rivals
At the XVI Olympiad
Games and Endings
Theoretical Notes, Endgame Twins
The Grandmasters Visit the Students –
(Botvinnik answered a number of questions posed by Moscow students. Two of interest:
Will there be a match between Fischer and one of the Soviet Grandmasters?
The idea of such a match was put forward only in a private letter from Fischer’s patron, the American businessman Bisno. Fischer himself has not made such a proposal. Probably it would be best of all for the US Chess Federation to make an official application.
What is your opinion of Fischer’s game?
Fischer is a very talented player. But what is the nature of his talent? When a chessplayer plays, he calculates elementary functions and from these he arrives at further, likewise rather elementary functions and so forth. Fischer calculates these elementary functions very well indeed. For this reason he finds his way fast and confidently in tactical complications. But when the game takes on a more indefinite character, and one must first of all attack questions of planning and of subtle positional evaluations, Fischer’s game is weaker. He is also obviously hampered by his emotions. When there is nothing to calculate, he is not infrequently thrown at the mercy of his emotions and loses control.)
Within the Spartakiad
Following a Good Example
The Club’s Lights have gone On.
Tournaments and Matches
Ballad of Chess by I. Davydov
Who Played against Petrov?
Review and Bibliography – Find the Combination
Readers’ Criticisms
Creative Forum – Back to that Queen Sacrifice by A. Suetin
It Happened in Belgrade (A Contestant’s Notes by V. Korchnoy)
Russian Checkers
Problems and Studies – The Winners’ Entries
Into Which Piece?
Solutions of Studies
International Contest
Studies
Problems from the Friendship Match
16 pages
3. Shakhmaty-In-English I/3 September 1965
Shakhmaty v SSSR 3 March 1965
Conference of Chess Composers
Tourneys of Rural Chessplayers
Conclusions and Suggestions
Kievan Impressions, XXXII National Championship
- The Riddle of Holmov
- Stein’s Formidable Initiative
- Sakharov, the Tourney Warrior
- The Two …Bronsteins
- Lutikov’s Chess Credo
- Tal Tires Out
They Will Play a Match (Keres & Spassky)
Nona’s Other Title
She is the Challenger (A. Kushnir)
Games and Endings
Readers’ Criticisms
After a Long Interruption (L. Polugaevsky) (Trade Unions Championship Moscow 1964)
The First in Azerbaijan
The Junior Tourneys
At Chess Club at the Palace
A Theoretical Innovation
A Swiss Championship
A Shaper of his own Talent (V. Gorin)
From the Pages of the Press
On One of Alekhine’s Lines
(Russian) Checkers
The Hastings Jubilee Tournament (1964-5)
(Gligoric-Keres from that tournament)
Hastings 1964/5
Round 8, Jan. 5, 1965
Gligoric, Svetozar – Keres, Paul
C99 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 O-O 9.h3 Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Qc7 12.Nbd2 cxd4 13.cxd4 Nc6 14.Nb3 a5 15.Be3 a4 16.Nbd2 Be6 17.a3 Na5 18.Rc1 Qb8 19.Bd3 b4 20.d5 Bd7 21.Nc4 Nxc4 22.Rxc4 bxa3 23.bxa3 Qb3 24.Qxb3 axb3 25.Rb4 Rxa3 26.Nd2 Rc8 27.Rxb3 Rxb3 28.Nxb3 Rc3 29.Nc1 h6 30.Re2 Rxd3 31.Nxd3 Bb5 32.Rd2 Nxe4 33.Rd1 Nc3 34.Rd2 Nxd5 35.Nb2 Nxe3 36.fxe3 f5 37.Rd5 Bc6 38.Ra5 Kf7 39.Ra6 Bd5 40.Na4 Bc4 41.Ra7 Ke6 42.Nb6 Bb3 43.Rb7 Bc2 44.Nc8 Bf8 45.Nb6 Be4 46.Rc7 Be7 47.Nc8 Bf6 48.Ra7 Bd3 49.Nb6 f4 50.Kf2 Bh4+ 51.Kf3 e4+ 52.Kxf4 g5+ 0-1
Problems and Studies
After Half a Century
A Woman Composer’s Problem – Nadezhda Leontyeva
In Memory of L. I. Kubbel
Solving Contest
17 pages
September 6, 2020
I have been doing a continuing series on short-run chess magazines in English. Previous installments are:
SQUARES and Lasker & His Contemporaries
https://forum.chesstalk.com/forum/ch...contemporaries
American Chess Quarterly, Chessworld magazine & American Chess Journal
https://forum.chesstalk.com/forum/ch...-chess-journal
To the majority of ChessTalk readers, I am sure that listing each issue of a defunct magazine is not necessary and overkill. I agree with this. But, to a chess researcher, chess historian or collector it is a valuable resource. Most libraries with chess holdings only give a cursory listing of a magazine’s issues.
Shakhmaty-In-English
First of all, why the hyphens in the title?
The publisher thought this would uniquely identify his product. Now, with the Internet, if you do a google search for Shakhmaty in English, you will get a couple of relevant hits and then everything else you can imagine for the rest!
In my first bound volume, there is this cover page:
Shakhmaty-In English
(Shakhmaty v SSSR)
Volume I
1965-66
Hanon W. Russell, Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Christopher Becker, Translation Editor
James M. Bolton, Notation Editor
E.G. Cummings, Managing Editor
H.H. Herbert, Advertising Manager
P.O. Box 91, Woodmont, Connecticut 06460
An advertisement in Chess Life, June 1965, p. 132:
Shakhmaty
Now in English
- Games annotated by the leading Russians!
- Surveys of all great tournaments!
- Pictures-Reviews-Problems-Endgames-Opening Analysis-Brilliant Bits of Play.
The complete, unabridged editions of this outstanding Russian magazine will be published twelve times a year, in magazine form. Subscriptions will begin about July 1, 1965. The translation of the Jan., 1965 issue of “Shakhmaty” will be the – “Shakhmaty-In-English” first edition. One year: $11.00
Mail your check or M.O. to:
Shakhmaty-In-English
P.O. Box 91
Woodmont, Conn.
_______
In the listings below, I shall first give the issue and date of the English edition, then the equivalent Russian issue and date and finally, the abbreviated contents.
1. Shakhmaty-In-English I/1 July 1965
Shakhmaty v SSR 1 January 1965
FIDE Conference in Telaviv, Israel
Trud’s Strong Finish in the USSR Team Championship
From a Master’s Notebook – I. Kan
Everything Would be Perfect, if Only… M. Euwe
From the Pages of Magazines Abroad
Readers’ Criticisms
Coming Chess Events in Russia in 1965
New Year – New Books
“Burevstnik’s Championships
Should They Joust at Kharkov?
Under the Flag of “Trudovye Reservye”
Among Kiev’s Construction Workers
In the Capital of Daghkestan
Tournaments and Matches
Eight Positions (solutions)
This is Interesting
The Shadow Side of Correspondence Play
(Russian) Checkers
The Belgrade Tournament (October 1964)
A Week in Norway by Y. Averbakh
The Finalists have been Announced…
Problems and Studies
He was Forced to Resign
17 pages
2. Shakhmaty-In-English I/2 August 1965
Shakhmaty v SSSR 2 February 1965
Korchnoi Wins USSR Championship
The Olympiad by I. Boleslavky
Olympiads Past and Present
Chess – The Soldiers Favorite Game
With the Sailors of the Arctic Fleet
Introducing The Contestants – Old Rivals
At the XVI Olympiad
Games and Endings
Theoretical Notes, Endgame Twins
The Grandmasters Visit the Students –
(Botvinnik answered a number of questions posed by Moscow students. Two of interest:
Will there be a match between Fischer and one of the Soviet Grandmasters?
The idea of such a match was put forward only in a private letter from Fischer’s patron, the American businessman Bisno. Fischer himself has not made such a proposal. Probably it would be best of all for the US Chess Federation to make an official application.
What is your opinion of Fischer’s game?
Fischer is a very talented player. But what is the nature of his talent? When a chessplayer plays, he calculates elementary functions and from these he arrives at further, likewise rather elementary functions and so forth. Fischer calculates these elementary functions very well indeed. For this reason he finds his way fast and confidently in tactical complications. But when the game takes on a more indefinite character, and one must first of all attack questions of planning and of subtle positional evaluations, Fischer’s game is weaker. He is also obviously hampered by his emotions. When there is nothing to calculate, he is not infrequently thrown at the mercy of his emotions and loses control.)
Within the Spartakiad
Following a Good Example
The Club’s Lights have gone On.
Tournaments and Matches
Ballad of Chess by I. Davydov
Who Played against Petrov?
Review and Bibliography – Find the Combination
Readers’ Criticisms
Creative Forum – Back to that Queen Sacrifice by A. Suetin
It Happened in Belgrade (A Contestant’s Notes by V. Korchnoy)
Russian Checkers
Problems and Studies – The Winners’ Entries
Into Which Piece?
Solutions of Studies
International Contest
Studies
Problems from the Friendship Match
16 pages
3. Shakhmaty-In-English I/3 September 1965
Shakhmaty v SSSR 3 March 1965
Conference of Chess Composers
Tourneys of Rural Chessplayers
Conclusions and Suggestions
Kievan Impressions, XXXII National Championship
- The Riddle of Holmov
- Stein’s Formidable Initiative
- Sakharov, the Tourney Warrior
- The Two …Bronsteins
- Lutikov’s Chess Credo
- Tal Tires Out
They Will Play a Match (Keres & Spassky)
Nona’s Other Title
She is the Challenger (A. Kushnir)
Games and Endings
Readers’ Criticisms
After a Long Interruption (L. Polugaevsky) (Trade Unions Championship Moscow 1964)
The First in Azerbaijan
The Junior Tourneys
At Chess Club at the Palace
A Theoretical Innovation
A Swiss Championship
A Shaper of his own Talent (V. Gorin)
From the Pages of the Press
On One of Alekhine’s Lines
(Russian) Checkers
The Hastings Jubilee Tournament (1964-5)
(Gligoric-Keres from that tournament)
Hastings 1964/5
Round 8, Jan. 5, 1965
Gligoric, Svetozar – Keres, Paul
C99 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 O-O 9.h3 Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Qc7 12.Nbd2 cxd4 13.cxd4 Nc6 14.Nb3 a5 15.Be3 a4 16.Nbd2 Be6 17.a3 Na5 18.Rc1 Qb8 19.Bd3 b4 20.d5 Bd7 21.Nc4 Nxc4 22.Rxc4 bxa3 23.bxa3 Qb3 24.Qxb3 axb3 25.Rb4 Rxa3 26.Nd2 Rc8 27.Rxb3 Rxb3 28.Nxb3 Rc3 29.Nc1 h6 30.Re2 Rxd3 31.Nxd3 Bb5 32.Rd2 Nxe4 33.Rd1 Nc3 34.Rd2 Nxd5 35.Nb2 Nxe3 36.fxe3 f5 37.Rd5 Bc6 38.Ra5 Kf7 39.Ra6 Bd5 40.Na4 Bc4 41.Ra7 Ke6 42.Nb6 Bb3 43.Rb7 Bc2 44.Nc8 Bf8 45.Nb6 Be4 46.Rc7 Be7 47.Nc8 Bf6 48.Ra7 Bd3 49.Nb6 f4 50.Kf2 Bh4+ 51.Kf3 e4+ 52.Kxf4 g5+ 0-1
Problems and Studies
After Half a Century
A Woman Composer’s Problem – Nadezhda Leontyeva
In Memory of L. I. Kubbel
Solving Contest
17 pages
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