CHESS IN THE USSR Russian Chess Mag, August-Sept, 1946!!! © Vintage Allan Troy

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The phrase "Allan Troy" © copyright 2025 by Catherine Troy and the Allan Troy Estate. All Rights Reserved in all formats, print and electronic. No other parties may use this phrase. We have listed a bunch of Shakhmatny Bulletins. This is Shakhmatny v. CCCP, or Chess in the USSR. The magazines are very different. "Bulletin" is from the Central Chess Club in Moscow, and is not the official organ of the Chess Federation of the Soviet Union, which "USSR" is, and "USSR" is published by the Ministry of Physical Culture and Sport--in other words, "USSR" is an organ of the Communist state. That can be seen in the substance. "Bulletin" is almost all chess, with 200 or so unannotated games. "USSR" is almost all articles, all laudatory--bad results by Soviet players never appear in the pages. On the other hand, "USSR" does publish articles by Western grandmasters--there are some by Bent Larsen in the collection we are selling off. That is significant--after Fischer, the Soviet Chess bosses considered Larsen to be the chief threat to the Soviet ownership of the world championship. You also find more photographs, cartoons, even poetry. A few issues have articles on Shashki, the 10 x 10 form of checkers so popular in the USSR. Issue #8-9, August-September, 18 annotated games, several articles. We have massive numbers of single issues of Shakhmatny Bulletin and Shakhmatny b. CCCP, plus that rare publication, Shakhmatny b. CCCP In English. We will combine shipping and save you a bundle--if y

• Year: 1946
• Condition: Fair

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