Bronstein, Zurich 1953 - editions?

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tlay80

What are the differences between these two editions of Bronstein's famous book on the 1953 Zurich Candidates' Tournament

https://www.amazon.com/Zurich-International-Chess-Tournament-Dover/dp/0486238008

https://www.amazon.com/Zurich-International-Chess-Tournament-1953/dp/1607966069

Is the later one to be preferred?  Is it identical?  I've never heard of the publisher, which is named as www.snowballpublishing.com.  That website seems busted, which makes me wonder how legit they are.  I worry -- is it a facsimile of some earlier edition with descriptive notation or something like that?

I can at least see a sample of the earlier Dover edition, which is in an ugly typewriter font and uses an annoyingly expanded version of algebraic notation (Bf1-c4), but I'd take it over a descriptive edition.  I'm hoping, though, that someone well tell me the Snowball edition is actually better.  Anyone have it?

tlay80

If you're looking at the Amazon "search inside" versions, it is.  If you click on "search inside for the Snowball edition, they actually show you the interior of the Dover edition. ("We are showing a sample of the Paperback edition (1979) because a sample of the Paperback edition (2013) from www.snowballpublishing.com you selected is not available.")

Or are you looking at actual copies?

tlay80

Thanks. Is Bronstein’s edition a typo for the Dover edition? (I make that kind of goof all the time.). Or do you mean something else by it?

DanielJalbuena

I have the "Snowball Publishing" edition. The contents are exactly as described by tlay80 in reference to the older Dover edition.

DanielJalbuena



tlay80

Thanks!

RussBell

Dover edition = Bronstein Edition.  That is, Dover is the publisher.  Bronstein is the person who annotated the games.  From the photo of the 'Snowball' edition it appears that it is simply a reprint of the Bronstein text.  There also exists an edition of the Zurich 1953 tournament's games which are annotated by Najdorf.

Atomic_Checkmate
And there is also a book on the tournament by Miguel Najdorf that some say is even better than Bronstein’s.
RussBell
Atomic_Checkmate wrote:
And there is also a book on the tournament by Miguel Najdorf that some say is even better than Bronstein’s.

And, of course, some say the opposite.

"Some say" is not a compelling endorsement.

tlay80
Atomic_Checkmate wrote:
And there is also a book on the tournament by Miguel Najdorf that some say is even better than Bronstein’s.

I've heard that too, or at least more accurate in some lines.  But I'm interested in the Bronstein because of its influence on successive generations, and because the annotations I've sampled look really interesting to me.

RussBell

Bronstein came very close to winning the World Chess Championship against Botvinnik.  The match ended in a tie, allowing Botvinnik to remain World Champion...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1951

learningthemoves

Algebraic notation?

tlay80
learningthemoves wrote:

Algebraic notation?

More or less.  You can see it in post #7.  The system used gives the square of origin as well as the square of destination.

taychoe

The snowball edition is illustrated, i.e. it has photos of the players, just like Najdorf's book.  The dover edition has no pictures and the font is just like in the typewriters of old.  The dover edition is a translation of the corrected 2nd Russian edition.  I'm not sure which version the snowball edition is based on.

learningthemoves
tlay80 wrote:
learningthemoves wrote:

Algebraic notation?

More or less.  You can see it in post #7.  The system used gives the square of origin as well as the square of destination.

 

Thanks.

tygxc

There are 3 books on the tournament: by Bronstein, by Najdorf, and by Euwe.
The book by Bronstein was originally in Russian and had several editions.
There are several editions of translations into English.