Soviet Chess Primer (Chess Classics)

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Yes, Black is in zugzwang, but surely there are much clearer and Elo-appropriate ways to illustrate the point than this? If you are new to the game, check out /r/chessbeginners and before posting here please read our rules: https://www. 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.

This new edition of a timeless classic includes the original foreword from the 2nd World Champion, Emanuel Lasker, as well as an introduction from the most celebrated chess trainer of modern times, Mark Dvoretsky. Ele cobre desde o movimento das peças até as três fases do jogo (abertura, meio jogo e finais), passando pelos elementos mais importantes (tática, estratégia e cálculo). Alekhine’s “my best games of chess” is a good start because games and notes are very clear and thorough.After Chapter One, “The Game Explained,” readers are taught the “Aim of the Game” (ch 2) and “Tactics and Strategy” (ch 3). I wish I'd read it sooner as then it would have been my introduction to many of the concepts it contains. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Closer scrutiny of The Soviet Chess Primer, however, leads me to question the title chosen by Quality Chess for this new translation.For example, simple tactics like pins and forks are easy enough for even absolute beginners to understand. 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.

Maizelis includes outrageously difficult mate problems in the ‘fun’ section of chapter one, and his account of the theory of corresponding squares (152) belongs in an endgame tome and not here.There are certainly better primers in print today, but few books are more interesting than is The Soviet Chess Primer. Each chapter concludes with a whimsical set of “Entertainment Pages,” where miniatures and ‘fun exercises’ appear, and some of the original drawings are brought over from the Russian.