Ilya Lvovich Maiselis

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Ilja Lvovich Maiselis , Russian Илья Львович Майзелис , English transcription Ilya Lvovich Maizelis (born December 27 or 28 , 1894 in Uman (now Ukraine); † December 23, 1978 in Moscow ) was a Soviet chess player, chess theorist and historian .

Act

From 1925 to 1930 Maiselis was a member of the editorial board of the magazine 64. Schaschki i schachmaty w rabotschem klube . From 1943 to 1946 he was the editor-in-chief of the Sovetskaya schachmatnaja chronika , which was published in Moscow in English.

Maiselis spoke fluent German and translated several German chess books into Russian. He also brought out a chess textbook for young people and books about endgames , especially pawn endgames and rook endgames . He was a friend and companion of Yuri Awerbach , with whom he contributed to the book series Comprehensive Chess Endings .

For contributions to Maiselis endgames , see the articles of evacuation and circumvention .

Maiselis was of Jewish faith.

Chess player

Best tournament results:

  • 1924 City tournament, B group 1st - 2nd place
  • 1932 Moscow Championship 4th place

Translations

  • 1926–1928 Translation into Russian My System by Aaron Nimzowitsch
  • 1928 Translation into Russian textbook of the game of chess by world chess champion Emanuel Lasker
  • 1928 Translation into Russian theory and practice of the endgames by Johann Berger
  • 1973 Translation into Russian How Viktor became a chess master by Emanuel Lasker

Works

  • Natschinajuschtschi chessmatist. Moskva - Leningrad, 1937
  • (Co-author) Schachmatny jeshegodnik. Volumes I and II, Moskva - Leningrad, 1937–1938
  • (Co-author) Osnowy debjutnoj strategii. Dlya Shakhmatistov 4-ji 3-j lategoriy. Moscow River, 1940
  • Izbrannyje partii sovjetskich i meshdunarodnych turnirow 1946 g. Moskva - Leningrad, 1949
  • (Co-author) Uchebnik schachmatnoj igry. 3. Isdaniye, Moskva, 1950
  • Ladja protiv peschek. K teorii ladejnogo endspilja. Moskva, 1956
  • (Co-author) Sakhmatnye okonchanija. Peschechnye, slonovye, konevye, pod redakzii Ju. Awerbacha. Moskva, 1956
  • Shachmaty. Osnowy teorii. 2 isd., Moskva, 1960
    • The Soviet Chess Primer . Quality Chess, Glasgow, 2014, ISBN 978-1-907982-99-6 . (Translation of a large part of Shachmaty. Osnowy teorii. )

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personal data
SURNAME Maiselis, Ilya Lvovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Майзелис, Илья Львович (Russian); Maizelis, Ilya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet chess player, theorist, historian and man of letters
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1894 or December 28, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Uman (now Ukraine)
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1978
Place of death Moscow