Books on Strategy. Help me pick the right one.

I think Modern Chess Strategy is probably very worth reading even with the mixed notation. Just an annoyance to deal with more than anything.

What I would really like is to see the his 3 volume series republished by someone.

Edit: I started reading through some of Pachman to see if it was actually a pain to read with the switching of notation and it isn't bad. So if you are used to both types of notation I wouldn't worry about it.

I thought of one other author that is worth looking at is Rowson. His books really are full of original thoughts and are excellent. They may be aimed at a slightly higher rated audience. Also Watson's two books are great but they are also targeted at a higher audience,

If Descriptive Notation is tough to play through i would look at another book as working through notations that give you problems can slow down and impair your knowledge of the material. I do not think there is one book that is much better than any other.

Just recently purchased Neil McDonald's Giants of Strategy. It's a collection of games, and some partial games going back over the last century or so with the author putting an emphasis on strategy. For my purposes this book is currently over my head. I know I'm a couple of years away from using it. My rating on this site is over 1900 but don't read too much into that. As someone with a year of chess playing under his belt my plan is to stick with lots of tactical problems and games that are annotated for instruction for beginning to intermediate players. Tomorrow I start working through Chernev's The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played having just finished his Logical Chess. By the way, I credit Logical Chess and some very simple opening principles for getting me, at least temporarily, to +1900.

You might like to look at Neil McDonald's other game collection books when you are done with Chernev. He has a couple move-by-move annotated books, Chess: the art of logical thinking and The Art of Planning in Chess.

I suggest getting Modern Chess Strategy first, which sets basic strategic concepts. I have winning chess strategies but i think its too low for your rating, so don't even get it. After Modern chess strategy, then get the amateur's mind and how to reassess your chess.