''Shakhmatny Bulletin'' (; ''Chess Bulletin'') was a Russian

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

magazine. It was published monthly from 1955 to 1990 and published about 2,500 complete games per year.

Yuri Averbakh Yuri Lvovich Averbakh (; 8 February 1922 – 7 May 2022) was a Russian chess grandmaster and author. He was chairman of the USSR Chess Federation from 1973 to 1978. Averbakh was the first centenarian FIDE Grandmaster. Despite his eyesight and ...

was an editor. The circulation was 20,000.

Bobby Fischer Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943January 17, 2008) was an American Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Chess Champi ...

called ''Shakhmatny Bulletin'' "the best chess magazine in the world." Frank Brady, ''Endgame'', 2011, , p. 80

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