Essential (translated) russian chess books?

Hello guys,

besides western books, are there some essential "must-have" translated russian chess books for advanced beginners?

I always read about Jeremy Silman books like "The Amateurs Mind", "Reassess your Chess", Bruce Pandolfinis "Endgame Course", Dan Heisman "Novice Nooks" etc.

Are there some similar books (hopefully translated) coming from russia which, for example, teach the reader some stuff "russian style"?

Greetings,

Cabal

Though it's probably not what you're looking for, I've heard very good things about Kostyev's 'Beginner to Expert in 40 Lessons', and even managed to find a copy though I'm yet to read it.

Any books by Botvinnik or Kotov. These books may be a bit older, but they were originally written in Russian. And this is going hardcore old-school.

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I know you want to hear about chess books, but just in case you don't know, there is a great chess website translating Russian interviews! The link is below:

http://www.chessintranslation.com/

Although written in English, Lev Alburt's Comprehensive Chess Course series follow the old Soviet training methods.

Well if his "Comprehensive Chess Course" is anything like the 
" Secrets of Russian Chess Masters" it might be a pretty good book, but I might add the "secrets" are basicly common sense chess.  I love Lev's books, usually fairly easy to read.  

I've been enjoying "Questions of Modern Chess Theory" by Lipnitsky. It was written around 1956 but not translated to English until around 2008.

It's fun to see all of these old books using the term "modern" to describe their era even though it was 50 years ago.

His book was described as the link between Nimzovitch and "modern" chess. The way he looks at the application of chess principles relative to a concrete situation is interesting. 

I think I sought it out because it was so valued by Fischer. I was curious to see what he would find so valueable. Since I just recently read "Endgame" by Brady, I suspect that's where I saw the reference.

At that time the term "modern" = new age = Atomic age = Atomic bomb = post World War 2 = E=MC2

I am about to translate in english a Russian booklet of 200 strategic (!) puzzles by a Russian Master of the "Avangard" school. It is very likely a "real" Russian approach about strategy and chess...

It'll be for free (OK, donations accepted :) )

That will be popular I expect - will it be available to download from this site?

This is a book I'm looking to get.

"Chess Middlegame Planning/Combinations," by Peter Romanovsky and translated by Jimmy Marshall. : )

Hello guys,

This question basiclly is a very good one at all. As you will know all the best books are written by russian masters.

Refer to my experince in reading chess books, I think the following list must be read by any good chess player or trainer:

1) My system, By Aron Nimzowitsch

2) Chess Middlegame Planning By Peter Romanovsky

3) Chess Middlegame Combination, Peter Romanovsky

(These two books [2+3] recently published in one volume as : Soveit Middlegame Technique By Peter Romanovsky)

4) Questions of Modern Chess Theory, By Lipnitsky

5) The Modern Chess Opening Theroy, By Alexi Suetin

6) A contemporary approch to Middlegame, By Alexy Suetin

7) Plan Like a Grandmaster, By Alexy Suetin

8) Three Steps to chess Mastery, By Alexy Suetin

9) Zurich International Turnument 1953, By David Bronstein

10) 1000 Chess Mate Combination, By Victor Khenkin

11) The Art of attach, By Vladimir Vukovic

12) Anatoly Karpov, His road to the world championship, By Mikhail M. Botvinnik

13) End Game Manual, By Mark Dvoretsky

14) My Best Games, By Alexander Alekhine

15) New York International Chess Turnument 1924, By Alexander Alekhine

16) New York 1927, By Alexander Alekhine

17) Think Like a Grandmaster, By Alexander Kotov

18) Play Like a Grandmaster, By Alexander Kotov

19) The Second International Chess Tournament Moscow 1935, By Nikolay Krylenko

20) Mastering The Endgame Volume 1 and 2, By M.I. Shershevsky & L.M. Slutsky

(the relation between Opening and Endgam described very carefully in these two books)

I promise if anybody have this chance and have enough time to read these books, can play very strongly.

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Pandolfini's "Russian Chess" :-)

Mikhail Tal. The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal. A collection of his games annotated with many amusing stories.

Garry Kasparov. On My Great Predecessors. Volumes 1-5. A games collection focusing on world champions and other strong players.

David Bronstein. Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953. A book on the Candidates tournament won by Smyslov. Interesting annotations explaining concepts such as weak colour complexes.

Alexander Kotov. Think Like a Grandmaster. Outlines his approach to calculation.

Heuristik wrote:

I am about to translate in english a Russian booklet of 200 strategic (!) puzzles by a Russian Master of the "Avangard" school. It is very likely a "real" Russian approach about strategy and chess...

It'll be for free (OK, donations accepted :) )

Update?

Kotov's Alekhine biography was translated into English by Ken Neat, and published by Batsford in 1975.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alexander-Alekhine-Batsford-chess-books/dp/0713429631

In 1983, Batsford published Chess Tactics by Kotov, translated by John Littlewood.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chess-Tactics-Batsford-Kotov/dp/0713425628/

As noted above, Study Chess with Tal is the only book of Koblencs' that seems to have been translated into English.

Yeah, I think you are right.  There is only 75 games and 284 pages in the Spanish translation, and I think the English is probably the same.  The adapter made a selection from the games.