I have this book. I am a Life-Master at the game. I teach chess for a living.

Smyslov is one of the greatest players who ever lived. His craft as an annotator sets himself in a class maybe all by himself. (How many other writers have held the World Championship?)

Simply put this is one of the best books in my library. I have over 2000 chess books, (not counting pamphlets) and this is easily in the Top 100, maybe even the Top 10.

Want to improve your game? Want to study tactics? Positional chess? Endings? It is all in here, 125 of the best annotated games you will ever see. While Smyslov lacks the ability to touch the lowest rating classes like Chernev, anyone who studies these games carefully could not help but improve. Smyslov here probably spent much more time writing this book than you will ever spend reading it ... and it shows.

According to his great rival Botvinnik, Smyslov was the world's best player from 1953 to 1957, although he held the title for only the last of those years. He also kept up great strength when most players have retired. This collection shows why. Smyslov outplayed a string of strong players with masterpiece games. His endgame skill was unsurpassed, and he also had an extremely sharp eye for combinations that took even the best opponents completely by surprise.

His love of music explains the title of Smyslov's autobiography, V poiskakh harmonii (1979) - "in search of harmony". An enlarged and modified English version is 125 Selected Games (1983).

This story about a journalist who meets with a family that has lived for 50 years all alone in a tiny primitive shack in the Siberian wilderness is fascinating. It appeals to our human fascination with "lost people" or people who have shut themselves away from the world. The descriptions of the family and their lives is an astonishing read. The reader comes off still very puzzled, however, at why they did that. Understandably, even the author did not find the true answer, but after our fascination with the situation is over, we have more questions than are answered. When three of the five family members suddenly die within a month of each other there is little explanation and it takes up only a page of story. I recommend this book, but I should warn that after the story is over, you will have many unanswered questions. The book does not give those of us untutored in Russian history sufficient explanation of the facts of people like this family.

This beautifully illustrated massive tomb chronicles how the artist arrived to abstraction. My only regret is the lack of at least some of his Bauhaus years. My favorite Kandinsky flourished at the Bauhaus and in Paris and I hope to find a volume as beautiful and rich as this. It offers no little insight into the man and his art. Recommended for the serious student and true devotee.

This book introduced main works by V. Surikov but reproduction on paper hardly reflect the main features of the painter's art. Surikov's paintings featured with large size, rough canvas, brave brush and strange and strong color, all of these are not reproduced in this book. But this book discussed his life in detail which will help those who needed the basic understanding of his life.

For those who love works by the Peredvizhniki, or the "Itinerants", or the "Wanderers", or whatever they might have been called, THIS IS THE BOOK YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!

Vasily Surikov has been an inspiration and the icon of Russian Realism, and through this wonderful publication one may understand how his works and his life intertwined with each other, through detailed studies of his masterworks like "Morning of the Execution of the Streltsys" and even "Yermak's conquest of Siberia". In fact, if i hadn't read this book i wouldn't have realised Surikov is a descendant of the Cossacks!

If your thirst for Russian art doesn't stop here, check out Parkstone Press Great Painter's series for other Russian Masters, like Repin, Shishkin, Larionov and even the seascape master himself, Aivazovsky.

Unfortunately, the earlier edition is the gem that you should get, which is also out of print.

This algebraic edition is FULL of typographical errors in transcription and you should not wish it upon your worst enemy.

As far as I know, no corrections were attempted on this one time revision...

The descriptive notation (e.g., 1.P-K4 N-KB3) is not as easy to read as the algebraic (e.g., 1.e4 Nf6) but this original work is STILL the best work on the subject, though with one or two errors or ommissions that Dvoretsky and others have discovered.

ALWAYS INSIST ON THE DESCRIPTIVE EDITION.

El final mas comun es el de torres, tambien es tremendamente complicado y un error con ventaja puede ser una derrota y un acierto en desventaja puede significar vovler al juego e incluso ganar. Este libro nos muestra muchisimos diagramas que mas que memorizar hay que comprender y reconocer, por ejemplo las casillas criticas, el posicionamiento del Rey, los peones y su avance, etc. Se los recomiendo ya que es un libro que me ayudo a comprender mejor el medio juego para llegar al final.

This book presents the basic concepts of continuum mechanics. The material is presented in a tensor invariant form with a large number of problems with solutions. The book integrates the use of the computer algebra system Mathematica, and contains a large number of programs on the disk that will help clarify the concepts of continuum mechanics.(taken from the author)

Cheers

This book is absolute rubbish! Don't even waste your money on it. You'd do better reading The Cat in the Hat rather than this. For any Romanov fan, this book is a must-a must throw in the trash. I don't know why people still insist that Aleksey survived Ekaterinburg. Just drop it. He didn't survive. Anastasiya didn't survive. Maria didn't survive. None of them survived! They most likely just burned the two "missing" bodies and scattered the ashes around the site...

You would have to be totally away with the fairies to find anything enjoyable about this book. This ... 'Alexis' is just too crazy for words. He must be mentally ill as he is about as believable as that other ... imposter, Anna Anderson. Really and truly anybody who gets taken in by this must have very little imagination. It is absolutely impossible to believe that any of the Romanovs survived the Ekaterinburg massacre. This book is only fit for pulping. Don't waste your time!

As with books on the possible escape of Anastasia, Alexei's older sister, this story reads like a fable. The author(s) stressed, over and over again, every single angle regarding the night of the massacre, and all of the analysis which took place in recent years on bones found to be from the Russian royal family. There are numerous pictures trying to compare the children of Vasily Filatov with other members of royal families related to Tsar Nicholas II. Many details are revealed about Vasily Filatov, and it's presented over, and over, and over again. A good fifty to seventy pages could have been cut from this book, and still told the basic story. Do I believe these allegations that Alexei and Vasily Filatov are one person? No . . . but it's still nice to think that someone escaped the massacre. But no . . . I don't think so.