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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 #6, August, articles on Korchnoi beating Reshevsky in the Candidates' Match (as Reshevsky was an American, big news!); another article on chess computers, complete with funny cartoon.

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 you make multiple purchases. Put all your magazines in a shopping cart and check out that way, we'll refund you over-postage of more than one dollar.

We combine shipping! Place all your purchases in the shopping cart and then press "Proceed to checkout."  This comes from the private library of Allan Troy, late owner of Troy's Chess Shoppe, Torrance, California. Follow us! Our ongoing sale features books and clocks from the 21st, 20th, 19th and 18th centuries! Other people are trying to sell our goods! Please check our store to make sure you are buying from us! Accept no substitutes!