Fizkultura i Sport Black Books
I have a small collection of chess books published by Fizkultura i Sport, each one covering a single Soviet master. The cover for the book on Lilienthal is pictured below. The others in the series have similar covers; I call them the 'Black Books', after their covers.
I have books on the following masters (spelled according to Gaige and listed with date of publication):-
- Aivars Gipslis (1987)
- Eduard Gufeld (1985)
- Ratmir Kholmov (1982)
- Alexander Konstantinopolsky (1985)
- Andor (book cover: 'Andre') Lilienthal (1989)
- Rashid Nezhmetdinov (1987)
- Viacheslav Ragozin (1984)
- Peter Romanovsky (1984)
- Alexey Suetin (1987)
- Alexander Tolush (1983)
- Alexander Zaitsev (1986)
A few others in the series that I know of, but haven't yet acquired:-
- Semen Furman (1988)
- Vladas Mikenas (1988)
- Vasily Panov (1986)
- Vladimir Simagin (1981)
- Vladimir Makogonov (1990)
How many books were published in this series? Gambitchess.com lists the following (author; title; publisher; year), which appear to be Black Books:-
- Gipslis; Best Games; Moscow, Fizkultura i sport; 1987
- Arkhangelsky & Kimenfeld; Alexander Zaitsev; Moscow, Fizkultura i sport; 1986
- Karpov; Semen Furman; Moscow, Medicina i fizkultura; 1988
- Kholmov; Best games; Fizkultura i sport; 1982
- Malkin; Alexander Kotov; Fizkultura i sport; 1984 (*)
- ?; Vasilij Panov; Fizkultura i sport; 1986
- Suetin; Alexej Suetin; Moscow, Fizkultura i sport; 1987
- Tolush V.; Alexander Tolush; Moscow, Fizkultura i sport; 1983
- Yudovich; Viacheslav Ragozin; Moscow, Fizkultura i sport; 1984
The books that I have can be compared against the Gambitchess PGN files to verify whether it is the same book or not. The book on Kotov (marked '*') appears to be an addition to the list. Are there more?
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