Paddy - An English translation of an Alekhine book by Kotov was published by RHM Press in 1975.  However, the publisher's blurb on the back cover notes that Kotov authored five books on Alekhine and that the RHM work was a "synthesis" of Kotov's books in Russian.  Thus, it doesn't sound like it's a straight translation of the Russian original for Alekhine: una vita per gli scacchi. Perhaps someone with more knowledge can shed additional light on this matter. 

I share your doubt about the likelihood of the Italian books (or their Russian precursors) being translated into English.  A potential translation would face competition in a relatively specialized market.  Multiple books on Lasker in English are available, and he and Steinitz were both covered in Everyman's "Move by Move" series.  And there's a massive Chigorin biography/game collection by Jimmy Adams published by New in Chess. However, as you note, Quality Chess has already done a few translations of Russian books, so perhaps there's hope they'll do more.  Elk & Ruby has done some Russian to English translations as well, so that could be another possibility.

Paddy - I'm not familiar with the three books you listed, but I hope they'll be translated to English someday. Jan Verendel mentioned an Italian edition of the Russian-language Rubinstein book in his Publisher's preface.  I assume this was Rubinstein: Virtuoso della scacchiera.  At any rate, that Costa Rican chess fan who wrote to Verendel was so excited about that book that he learned Italian in order to read it.

Akiba Rubinstein, an English translation of the 1980 Russian-language Rubinstein game collection/biography by GM Yuri Razuvaev and Valery Muraakhveri was recently published by Verendel Publishing. The translation was by GM Andrey Deviatkin, who also did a computer-assisted review of the original annotations. His comments are collected in a footnotes section at end of the book, presumably to minimize intrusion into the original text.  The new translation has also been expanded over the Russian book with additional photos plus information on Rubinstein that has come to light since 1980. A preview of the book is available on the New in Chess website: 
https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/8893.pdf

Interestingly, in his Publisher's preface, Jan Verendel says that the idea for the Rubinstein book came from a chess fan in Costa Rica, who recommended a translation of the Russian book, which Verendel points out was part of the famous "Black" series on outstanding chess players published in the Soviet Union from 1969 to 1987.  The Verendel website mentions "several very interesting translation projects in progress right now", although the Rubinstein work is only Verendel's second book after its initial publication, Keres' World Chess Championship 1948. As an aside, a different translation of this Keres' book (by Douglas Griffin) was recently published by Chess Informant.

The origin of the new Rubinstein book raises a question: which deserving game collections still remain to be translated into English?  While Jan Verendel isn't necessarily "accepting requests", he does seem to be open to suggestions.  Tarrasch's Die moderne Schachpartie readily comes to mind for me, thanks to ReneDescartes noting the lack of an English version earlier in this thread and in a couple of other places in the the ChessPub Forum. And speaking of the "Black" series, I picked up the volume on Ragozin shortly after it was published in 1984 just to have some of his games, never suspecting how the profileration of databases would make this unnecessary.  However, it would be nice to have a translation of that book or of Ragozin's own book of selected games.  Tragically, Ragozin died in 1962 at the relatively young age of 53 while working on his book.  It was completed by friends of his but never translated into English, although a Spanish version was released in the 1960s.

My "most" favourite were the Keres early/middle/later years set, in descriptive, but they were classic books and these were my first introduction to the game.

Some of the modern players sets' are quite good, of which I like three in particular of the ones I've read:

(1) "My Magic Years with Topalov" by Edouard, though my choice is heavily influenced by Topalov's uncompromising style   

(2) Gelfand's series of books which are almost the opposite extreme in style but nevertheless very, very interesting to play over slowly and repeatedly.

(3) Kamsky's two books are very good, written in a similar style to Keres, e.g. scene-setting then the emotions of the game as it happened as well as the analysis.

Just my tuppenceworth.

Bad luck with Woods Zurich book. The book is unique author and is not a translation of any other books. But the book uses the old style Englisch notation so I can not read it. So I will only read the swedish book.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Бронштейн,_Давид_Ионович

I tried the same. The link works fine in the previewer, but once posted the BBS software changes it so it no longer works.

Here's the correct link, but it's not legible.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%88%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B9%D...

https://graphemica.com/ш
https://graphemica.com/%D1%88

bragesjo wrote on 09/10/20 at 19:25:43:

The link given earlier by an ordinary chessplayer had quite a bit of information on the Bronstein translations: https://chessbookchats.blogspot.com/2016/01/neuhausan-zurich-1953-candidates.htm...
But it only mentions two versions in English: The McKay edition translated by Freedman and Hochberg is the one you just mentioned (The Chess Struggle in Practice), and the other is the Dover edition translated by Marfia. I dont know how you get to four.

The Dover edition is the only one I have on Zürich 1953, at least in English, and I still haven't read it. But online I found info on an abbreviated German edition of Bronstein's book that looked eerily familiar: Sternstunden des Schachs. Zürich 1953. Sportverlag, Berlin, 1983/1991. I had forgotten about it, but now I'm almost certain I owned that book at one point and got rid of it or put it in an attic when I bought the more complete Dover edition.

Wikipedia mentions three editions of Bronstein's Zürich book in Russian. The Marfia translation is from the 2nd edition (1960). Probably the Hochberg translation is too, but I don't know that.

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(that Wikipedia link doesn't seem to work. I have probably mixed two character sets in a way you're not supposed to in my striving to make it look correct here.)

bragesjo wrote on 09/10/20 at 19:59:51:

Inspired is good! I should get around to reading Bronstein's book myself; have had it on my shelf for more than 15 years.

Stigma wrote on 09/10/20 at 01:49:57:

 
Actually there are are are theoretical overview the Swedish in the book far back in the book that I did not notice before. It is specified that Keres made that part alone. Maybee recycle it and translated into Swedish?

By the way I found a reprint of "World Championship Candidates' Tournament - Switzerland 1953" by Wood at a online shop so I ordred it to complete my collection.

By the way are there any difference between Bronsteins different Zurich works? It looks like there are a least 3 different titles avalble of the same book. One example are "The Chess Struggle in Practice. Lessons from the famous Zurich Candidates tournament 1953" must be the same book as the other as well? In that case the book has at least 4 titles in english that are the same book.