Ilya Lvovich Maizelis (russian: Илья Львович Майзелис, born Uman, 28 December 1894, died Moscow 23 December 1978) was a Soviet

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, writer, and theoretician. Maizelis was better known as a writer than as a player. He played in several Moscow city championships during the 1920s and 1930s, his best result being 4th place in 1932. Under the Soviet system he was ranked as a "first category" player, the next rank below Master. In modern terms, this is equivalent to an

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in the 2200s.Maizelis at Edochess
/ref> He was on the editorial board of '' 64'' from 1925 to 1930, and was executive secretary of the English-language ''Soviet Chess Chronicle'' from 1943 to 1946. He was the author of a number of instructional works on chess, including ''Shakhmat (1949, English version: "Soviet Chess Primer"), and theoretical works on the endgame. ''Pawn Endings'' was published by

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in English in 1974. He also translated a number of German language chess books into Russian, including Aron Nimzowitsch's '' My System'' and Emanuel Lasker's ''Manual of Chess''.

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