Hanon W. Russell is a lawyer,

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, chess book author, translator, online chess magazine publisher and chess book store operator. He maintains his office in

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. Mr. Russell has been translating Russian chess literature for four decades, has had in the past a master's rating, collects chess memorabilia, and practiced law in Connecticut. Russell first became known during the

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era for translating

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documents into English. He enjoyed exceptional access to Soviet materials. Hanon Russell has been involved for many years with the

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. He is the former publisher

ChessCafe.com ChessCafe.com is a website that publishes endgame studies, book reviews and other articles related to chess on a weekly basis. It was founded in 1996 by Hanon Russell, and is well known as a repository of articles about chess and its history. It ...

, a weekly chess publication online.

Books

* ''Russian for Chess Players'' * ''A Chessplayer's Guide to Russian'' * ''Correspondence Chess'' by Hanon W. Russell, Thinker's Press, 1980

External links

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