Subject: where to learn basic Russian for chess?

"Scott" asked in message
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are there any good programs (mp3, docs, etc.) to learn the basics of
spoken Russian - so as to understand the names for the pieces,
letters, numbers, chess terms, slang, etc.? Thank you.

-Scott

Robert Musicant replied on 28 July:

Don't know about a program, but there is a book called "Russian for
Chessplayers" by Hanon Russell.

RM

Besides Hanon Russell's "A Chessplayer's Guide to Russian" (original title),
published in New Haven, Conn., in 1972, containing approximately 35 pages,
there is also an excellent six-language reference book "Small Chess Dictionary"
(152 pages), compiled by Yuri Averbakh and Y.E. Steinsapir, which was published
by Sahovski Informator, Belgrad, in 1980.
It contains the necessary minimum of chess terms, words, word combinations, and
complete phrases that will enable players, arbiters and organizers to converse
in Russian, English, German, French, Spanish and Serbo-Croatian. It is also of
great use to players who want to read the chess literature in these languages
and especially read the annotations to games.

George Mirijanian