Soviet Chess Primer (Chess Classics)

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Ultimately, I'd recommend this for the serious beginner or early-intermediate chess player looking to deepen his or her knowledge of the game. This is a great instructional technique as the student sees firsthand with positions they've gained familiarity with earlier that any given chess position will have multiple themes in it.

Really excellent book, found it useful after coming back to chess after a break, interspersed with key ideas and principles for all parts of your game. Chess is largely a matter of pattern recognition, and this book will help you start to recognize the patterns. Approximately 60% of the Russian text appears in The Soviet Chess Primer; although I cannot read the Cyrillic lettering, it appears that some detailed opening analysis and sections on the history of chess were excised.Another neat feature is that new concepts are in many cases are introduced and the author then cites the diagram numbers from previous sections to point out that the new concepts exists in *those* positions as well.

Nevertheless, as someone who remembers the white-hot rivalry of their world championship matches, I was startled when I received the new translation of Ilya Maizelis’ The Soviet Chess Primer from Quality Chess.The author presents the material in an engaging and concise manner and includes practical examples after the theory, and exams at the end of each chapter. Take, for instance, this ‘ancient puzzle’ (72) used to illustrate the restriction of piece mobility. Please remember it can take some time for your bank or credit card company to process and post the refund too. The breakneck pace of the book and the complex examples preclude me from thinking it appropriate for the beginner. Though this book does begin with the basic rules of chess--and even teaches the reader how to read the book because it takes the time to explain algebraic chess notation right at the start--it quickly moves on to more advanced tactical and strategic ideas.

Far be it from me to want anything to do with the Soviet Union, but even I have to admit, this is one of the finest tools to quickly advance your chess game if you're an advanced beginner or intermediate player. If you are new to the game, check out /r/chessbeginners and before posting here please read our rules: https://www. Só ressalto um detalhe: apesar de ser fácil acompanhar os primeiros capítulos, logo o livro fica bem difícil! It should not surprise us that youthful attachment to cherished books would persist, and in this case the attachment is justified.It is your responsibility to make sure that your operating equipment is compatible with the relevant software or video DVD before purchasing and that software purchased is functionally adequate for your needs. If his name is recognized at all, it is as a co-author of the classic Pawn Endings with Yuri Averbakh, although in truth Maizelis was its primary author. Such high regard may be surprising for an American audience, for whom Ilya Maizelis is something of a mystery.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The translation by John Sugden reads well, and – as one expects from Quality Chess – the production values are high. This entry was posted in Instructional, problems, Studies and tagged Ilya Maizelis, Quality Chess, The Soviet Chess Primer on June 4, 2015 by fullcityplus.After Chapter One, “The Game Explained,” readers are taught the “Aim of the Game” (ch 2) and “Tactics and Strategy” (ch 3).