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The text provides a deep dive into the internal logic of the board, including the arrangement of the center, the development of minor pieces in the opening, and the fundamental endgame patterns that every aspiring player must master.\u003cbr\u003eAs a publication of the Fizkultura i Turizm (Physical Culture and Tourism) state house, this pocket-sized volume was designed for portability, intended to be studied in workers' clubs, parks, or on the go. Euwe's methodical style—emphasizing clarity and common sense—made this self-study guide one of the most effective and widely read manuals of the pre-war era. Across its 94 pages, the book features numerous diagrams and instructional examples that helped shape the first generation of the legendary Soviet school of chess. 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The competition featured an extraordinary lineup of grandmasters, including former World Champion José Raúl Capablanca, future World Champion Max Euwe, and the reigning champion of the tournament, Salo Flohr. The book provides round-by-round commentary, detailing the dramatic surprises of the event—most notably the victory of the veteran British player Sir George Thomas, who shared first place with Euwe and Flohr, famously defeating Capablanca in the process.\u003cbr\u003eFor Soviet readers of the 1930s, Vainshtein’s account was an essential window into the international chess world. He includes a history of the Hastings Chess Club (founded in 1881) and assesses Botvinnik’s performance (who finished 5th–6th) as a critical learning experience for the burgeoning \"Soviet School of Chess.\" The book also features games by Vera Menchik, the first Women's World Champion, and André Lilienthal, whose stunning queen sacrifice against Capablanca remains one of the most famous combinations in history.\u003cbr\u003eSamuil Vainshtein, who would later serve as Botvinnik's manager and die during the Siege of Leningrad, was known for his analytical precision and narrative flair. 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Published in Kharkiv (then a major administrative and industrial hub), the booklet records the championship for workers of the Machine and Tractor Stations (MTS)—the backbone of the Soviet agricultural system during the mid-1930s.\u003cbr\u003eThe bulletin contains a detailed record of the chess and checkers (shashki) competitions held over seven days in April. It includes tournament tables, selected annotated games, and tactical problems. Such publications were vital for the \"Chess in the Masses\" movement, aiming to elevate the cultural and intellectual level of the proletariat and rural workers. The text reflects the competitive spirit of the MTS workers of the South and Central regions, showcasing the grassroots popularity of these games outside of Moscow and Leningrad.\u003cbr\u003eBeyond the moves on the boards, the bulletin serves as a sociological document. 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The Soviet team, led by legends such as Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, David Bronstein, and a young Tigran Petrosian, demonstrated the overwhelming dominance of the Soviet school of chess. The bulletins provide a move-by-move analysis of the games, expert commentary, and photographs from the venues, capturing the tense and high-stakes atmosphere of the competition.\u003cbr\u003eThe USSR-USA match was particularly notable as it was the first time Soviet players traveled to the United States for a team match since the onset of the Cold War. Despite the geopolitical friction, the bulletins reflect the mutual respect between the grandmasters. The coverage includes detailed tables, interviews with the participants, and reports on the cultural reception of the teams in London and New York.\u003cbr\u003eFinding a complete set of all 10 issues is an exceptional rarity. 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Shiffers did not merely translate; he adapted the material for the burgeoning Russian school of chess, which was then beginning its ascent to global dominance.\u003cbr\u003eOf particular historical importance is the inclusion of Emanuel Lasker’s legendary lectures, \"Common Sense in Chess.\" Written by the reigning World Champion at the peak of his powers, these articles introduced a revolutionary philosophical approach to the game, emphasizing general principles and the \"economy of force\" over rote memorization of variations.\u003cbr\u003eThe presence of contemporary pencil and ink notations suggests that this specific copy was a working tool for a serious player of the Imperial era, adding a layer of unique provenance. 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The authors, Nikolai Zubarev and Vasily Panov, were quintessential figures of this era—masters who were as skilled at the board as they were at the writing desk.\u003cbr\u003eThe manual is designed as a rigorous yet accessible entry point for the \"worker-player.\" Unlike the dense theoretical volumes of the time, this textbook focuses on the fundamental mechanics of the game: the movement of pieces, the value of material, and the most essential tactical motifs like the pin, the fork, and the discovered check. The authors explicitly position the book as a \"primer,\" intended to provide the minimum viable knowledge required to participate in regional tournaments and \"stomach\" more advanced literature later.\u003cbr\u003eVasily Panov, who would later become world-famous for the \"Panov-Botvinnik Attack\" in the Caro-Kann Defense, brings his characteristic clarity to the strategic sections. 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Published under the auspices of the USSR Sports Committee and printed by \"Vechernyaya Moskva,\" these bulletins were intended for professional study and immediate distribution. Due to the high-acid paper typical of the 1950s and the ephemeral nature of daily sports publications, a complete set of all 20 issues is exceptionally difficult to find today. It is a cornerstone piece for any serious chess historian or collector of Soviet sports memorabilia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43963251818538,"sku":"EB-306372120647","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/57_fc686c02-ab83-450d-acb6-18b2072ad53b.jpg?v=1768163379"},{"product_id":"международный-женский-турнир-1952-international-women-s-chess-tournament-8-9-11","title":"International Women’s Chess Tournament: FIDE Candidates (Mezhdunarodnyi zhenskii turnir), 1952. 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During the early 1950s, the Soviet Union had established total hegemony over the women's game, and this tournament was essentially a battle between the world's elite to decide who would face the reigning champion, Lyudmila Rudenko.\u003cbr\u003eThe bulletins contain move-by-move notations of games, opening analyses, and standings. They document the triumph of Elisabeth Bykova, whose victory here propelled her to the World Championship title the following year. The field was legendary, featuring Olga Rubtsova (another future champion) and international stars like Fenny Heemskerk and Edith Keller-Hermann.\u003cbr\u003eBeyond the technical data, these issues reflect the high organizational standards of the \"Stalinist Empire\" style of sports bureaucracy. Published daily or bi-daily during the event, such bulletins were printed on fragile paper and intended for immediate consumption by trainers and enthusiasts, making surviving copies exceptionally scarce. 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Состояние: Хорошее.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eLisitsin, Georgy Mikhailovich. The Chess Player’s Opening Repertoire (Debiutnyi repertuar shakhmatista).\u003cbr\u003eMoscow: Fizkultura i sport, 1960.\u003cbr\u003e120 pp. Soft publisher’s cover, standard format. Condition: Good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 1960 volume is a classic artifact from the golden age of the Soviet Chess School. Georgy Lisitsin (1909–1972), a Master of Sports of the USSR and a renowned theoretician, was one of the first to provide a systematic methodology for constructing a personal opening repertoire. Rather than simply listing moves, Lisitsin teaches the reader how to select openings that suit their individual playing style, covering strategic schemes for both White and Black.\u003cbr\u003eThe book reflects the state of chess theory at the end of the 1950s, featuring analysis and games from the giants of the era, including Botvinnik, Smyslov, and the emerging Tal. Despite its compact size, it offers deep insights into the \"Hypermodern\" and classical openings that dominated Soviet tournament play. For collectors of sports history and chess enthusiasts, this edition represents the pedagogical rigor that helped the USSR maintain its global dominance over the chessboard for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43963255390250,"sku":"EB-306611036483","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/57_c0449bcd-0d32-4883-8763-b3b49211c921.jpg?v=1768163457"},{"product_id":"юдович-ботвинник-таль-1960-yudovich-botvinnik-tal-pre-match-chess-world-champion","title":"M. Yudovich. Botvinnik – Tal. To the World Chess Championship Match, 1960. In Russian","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eМ. Юдович (международный мастер). 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The lectures provide detailed biographies and technical analyses of past masters—including Greco, Philidor, Anderssen, Morphy, and Wilhelm Steinitz—with a particular focus on Steinitz's revolutionary theories regarding the limits of the attack.  As a vital primary source, this volume documents the burgeoning \"chess fever\" in the early Soviet Union and the state's efforts to professionalize chess education through the works of leading international scientists of the game. The book is densely illustrated with numerous studies and detailed move-by-move game analyses. This first edition, featuring a relatively small circulation for the period, is a significant bibliographical rarity for collectors of chess history, sports memorabilia, and early Soviet educational publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44250398720042,"sku":null,"price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_0702.jpg?v=1775938513"},{"product_id":"levenfish-g-ed-the-modern-opening-a-systematic-analysis-of-the-theory-of-beginnings-sovremennyy-debyut-vol-1-open-games-1940-in-russian","title":"Levenfish, G. (Ed.). The Modern Opening: A Systematic Analysis of the Theory of Beginnings (Sovremennyy debyut). Vol. 1: Open Games, 1940. In Russian.","description":"\u003cp\u003eГ. Я. Левенфиш (ред.).\u003cbr\u003eСовременный дебют. Систематический анализ теории начал. В 3 т. Т. 1. 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Compiled under the editorship of the legendary Grandmaster Grigory Levenfish—a two-time USSR champion—the work synthesizes the best Soviet and international research of the era, referencing luminaries such as Max Euwe, Savielly Tartakower, and Paul Rudolf von Bilguer. Each opening is preceded by a historical overview and an introductory article that evaluates the strategic systems discussed.  As a vital primary source, this volume documents the sophisticated level of Soviet chess scholarship just before the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, which prevented the publication of the subsequent two volumes. Because only this first volume was ever released, it stands as a tragic \"fragment\" of a grander pedagogical project. 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Единственный разрешенный автором перевод с немецкого под редакцией И. Л. Майзелиса.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eИздание второе, стереотипное, 11–15 тысяча.\u003cbr\u003eМосква – Ленинград: Государственное издательство, 1927.\u003cbr\u003e304 с.: портрет на паспарту (фронтиспис). Издательский картонажный переплет. Чуть увеличенный формат.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eLasker, Emanuel. Manual of Chess (Uchebnik shakhmatnoi igry). The only authorized translation from the German, edited by I. L. Maizelis.\u003cbr\u003eSecond stereotype edition, copies 11,000–15,000.\u003cbr\u003eMoscow – Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo [State Publishing House], 1927.\u003cbr\u003e304 pp.: with a mounted portrait frontispiece on paspartu. Publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards. Slightly enlarged format.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the second Russian printing of Emanuel Lasker's celebrated Lehrbuch des Schachspiels (1926), prepared as the sole translation authorized by the author himself and edited by Ilya Lvovich Maizelis. The first Russian edition appeared in 1926 in a print run of 10,000 copies from the State Publishing House in Moscow–Leningrad; the present stereotype issue of 1927 (copies 11,000–15,000) followed within a year, reflecting the extraordinary demand for Lasker's teaching among the rapidly expanding Soviet chess public. Emanuel Lasker (1868–1941), the second World Chess Champion in history, held the title from 1894 to 1921 — the longest reign ever recorded. A mathematician, philosopher, and pupil of David Hilbert, Lasker brought to chess an unmistakable intellectual depth; his Manual is universally regarded as one of the most profound instructional books ever written on the game, combining a systematic course in the elements with reflections on aesthetics, psychology, and the philosophy of struggle that later influenced Capablanca, Botvinnik, and generations of Soviet masters. The Russian edition has a distinct historical weight of its own: Lasker, who emigrated from Nazi Germany, spent several years in Moscow in the 1930s at the invitation of the Soviet authorities, and his work here became one of the foundational texts of the Soviet school of chess. The translation and editorship by Ilya Maizelis (1894–1978) — himself a distinguished chess author, theorist, and translator, and later the author of the classic Soviet Chess Primer — lends the edition exceptional philological authority, as Maizelis worked in close contact with Lasker on the Russian text. The binding, designed in the restrained late-Constructivist manner characteristic of Gosizdat's production of the mid-1920s, with its blocky typography and stylized rook, situates the volume firmly within the visual culture of early Soviet book design. 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Очерки по истории шахмат в СССР.\u003cbr\u003eМосква — Ленинград: Государственное издательство «Физкультура и спорт» (ФиС), 1938.\u003cbr\u003e392 с., с историческими рисунками и фотографиями ; 20 х 14 см.\u003cbr\u003eИздательский коленкоровый переплет светло-коричневого цвета с черно-бронзовым тиснением: на верхней крышке — декоративный картуш с заглавием в орнаментальной рамке, на корешке — шрифтовая композиция и виньетки.\u003cbr\u003eСостояние: переплет в хорошей сохранности, коленкор слегка потерт по краям, верх и низ корешка и уголки незначительно потерты; внутренний блок крепкий, бумага равномерно пожелтела, текст и иллюстрации полные и чистые.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eKogan, M. S. Essays on the History of Chess in the USSR.\u003cbr\u003eMoscow — Leningrad: State Publishing House \"Fizkul'tura i Sport\" (Physical Culture and Sport), 1938.\u003cbr\u003e392 pp., with historical illustrations and photographic plates ; 20 x 14 cm.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher's tan cloth binding with black and gilt-bronze stamping: front board with a decorative title cartouche in an ornamental frame, spine with title and decorative vignettes.\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Binding in good preserved state, cloth lightly rubbed at edges, head and tail of spine and corners slightly worn; text block firm, paper evenly age-toned, text and illustrations complete and clean.\u003cbr\u003eMikhail Solomonovich Kogan (1898–1942) was a Soviet chess historian and journalist who established himself in the 1920s and 1930s as the principal researcher of the Russian and Soviet chess past. His \"Ocherki po istorii shakhmat v SSSR\" (\"Essays on the History of Chess in the USSR\"), published in Moscow and Leningrad in 1938 by the state publishing house Fizkul'tura i Sport, is the most ambitious and comprehensive single-volume narrative history of Russian chess produced in the pre-war Soviet period. The book traces the game's penetration into Kievan Rus, its place as the \"tsar's game\" of seventeenth-century Muscovy, its role under serfdom, the rise of organized chess life in the Russian Empire from the second half of the nineteenth century, the first all-Russian and international tournaments held on Russian soil, and the careers of the first Russian champions and their celebrated games. Of particular cultural-historical interest are the chapters devoted to chess imagery in the byliny epic cycle and in Russian folklore, and to the place of the game in the lives of major Russian writers, scholars, and public figures — Pushkin, Turgenev, Lev Tolstoy, Mendeleev, Lenin, and others. The volume is generously illustrated with historical engravings, portraits, and photographs of champions and major events, and accompanied by extensive historical and bibliographical notes. The book belongs to the wave of late-1930s Soviet historiography that sought to establish Russian primacy in every field of science and culture; it remains, however, a thoroughly researched and still genuinely useful primary survey of Russian chess history, and is one of the foundational texts of Soviet chess literature. Kogan himself perished during the Siege of Leningrad in 1942, and this volume is regarded as the most important monograph from his pen. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44287579062314,"sku":null,"price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_1272.jpg?v=1777147375"},{"product_id":"lasker-emanuel-manual-of-chess-uchebnik-shakhmatnoy-igry-1926-first-russian-edition","title":"Lasker, Emanuel. Manual of Chess (Uchebnik shakhmatnoy igry), 1926. First Russian edition.","description":"\u003cp\u003eЭмануил Ласкер. Учебник шахматной игры. Единственный разрешенный автором перевод с немецкого под редакцией И. Л. Майзелиса. Со специальным предисловием автора, обращенным «к шахматистам Советского Союза» (январь 1926 г.) и его факсимильной подписью.\u003cbr\u003eМосква – Ленинград: Государственное издательство, 1926.\u003cbr\u003e[6], 304 с.: с многочисленными шахматными диаграммами и иллюстрациями в тексте. Тираж 10 000 экз. Обычный формат.\u003cbr\u003eИздательский картонажный переплет с серебряным тиснением заглавия и фигуры пешки на верхней крышке, тканевый корешок.\u003cbr\u003eПервое русское издание знаменитого «Lehrbuch des Schachspiels».\u003cbr\u003eСостояние удовлетворительное: утрачен портрет автора. Блок крепкий, текст и диаграммы полные, утрат страниц нет. Переплет сильно потерт, имеются значительные утраты картона и бумажного покрытия по краям и углам обеих крышек, многочисленные заломы и трещины; корешок надорван у верхней и нижней капталов, сохранен. Бумага текстового блока с равномерным временным пожелтением и разводами по форзацам и первым\/последним листам.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eLasker, Emanuel. Manual of Chess. The only translation from the German authorized by the author; edited by I. L. Maizelis. With a special foreword by the author addressed «to the chess players of the Soviet Union» (January 1926) and his facsimile signature.\u003cbr\u003eMoscow – Leningrad: State Publishing House (Gosizdat), 1926.\u003cbr\u003e[6], 304 pp.: with numerous chess diagrams and illustrations in the text. Print run 10,000 copies. Octavo.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher's pictorial boards lettered in silver on the upper cover, with a stamped pawn vignette; cloth spine.\u003cbr\u003eFirst Russian edition of the celebrated «Lehrbuch des Schachspiels».\u003cbr\u003eCondition fair: the frontispiece portrait of the author is lacking. Text block sound, text and diagrams complete, no page losses. Boards heavily worn, with substantial losses of board and paper covering along the edges and corners of both covers, numerous creases and cracks; cloth spine torn at head and tail but preserved. Even age-toning to the text block and staining on the endpapers and the first and last leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA landmark of twentieth-century chess literature in its earliest Soviet form. Emanuel Lasker (1868–1941) — World Chess Champion for an unprecedented twenty-seven years, from his defeat of Steinitz in 1894 to his loss to Capablanca in 1921 — was also a doctor of philosophy and mathematics, a published philosopher of struggle, and a friend of Albert Einstein. His «Lehrbuch des Schachspiels», first published in Berlin in 1925, was at once a beginner's primer and a profound philosophical treatise on the game, treating opening theory, the fundamentals of the endgame, positional play and chess aesthetics on the basis of the Steinitzian tradition that Lasker himself had decisively refined. The 1926 Moscow–Leningrad edition is the first Russian translation, prepared under the editorship of the eminent Soviet chess analyst and pedagogue Ilya L. Maizelis (1894–1978) and printed in only 10,000 copies. It is rendered particularly significant by the special preface Lasker wrote expressly for this edition, in which he hails Soviet chess players for «the energy and creative gift that will breathe new life into the old game of chess» — a remarkably prescient observation made only months before the rise of the Soviet chess school that would dominate the discipline for the rest of the century, and a personal foreshadowing of Lasker's own emigration to the USSR a decade later, when, fleeing Nazi Germany, he lived in Moscow from 1934 to 1937 and competed under the Soviet flag at international tournaments. Despite its battered exterior and the loss of the frontispiece portrait, the present copy preserves intact the complete text and diagrams of one of the foundational works of Russian-language chess literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44288972488746,"sku":null,"price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_1483.jpg?v=1777217147"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/collections\/Chess_Collection_1.png?v=1771324738","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/collections\/chess.oembed?page=3","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}