Subject: where to learn basic Russian for chess?

Hanon Russell wrote a book with a name like "Russian for Chess Players".
This
was printed back in the 1970s. I don't know where you would get a copy
today.

It was excellent for being able to translate Russian language chess
magazines
without having to learn all the Russian idioms.

Richard Peterson


Hanon Russell's book was ... not the best.

-snip-

K. Croxen


Eric Schiller also bad-mouthed Hanon Russell's "Russian for Chessplayers."
Here's what he said about the book, which was reprinted by Thinker's Press in
August 1995:

"You would do better to buy a cheap dictionary with a small grammatical sketch.
Basically, this is just a sketchy work which suggests you can guess the rest.
In fact, the vocabulary is so inadequate that you will need a dictionary
anyway."

As you can see, this differs sharply from R. Peterson's assessment of the book
as being "excellent for being able to translate Russian language chess
magazines . . ."

George Mirijanian