There are 1996 reprints with generous previews on Google Books, so check it out and see what you think. I don't know Spanish but there was a question in For Beginners at the end of 2025 with a position from book 1. That chapter featured exercises requiring the reader to count the number of moves available to each side in a given position. It seemed a bit like the Soviet Chess Primer but that was just an impression.
Has anyone read Roberto Grau's Tratado General de Ajedrez?
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It turns out the four volumes were reprinted in 2020. See
Downloadable excerpts are also available.
In the blog post How to Climb from 1600 to 1800: Four Coaches Share Their Experience! by Flavia Cancio-Bello Ayes, one of the coaches, WFM Liliam Blanco García recommends the Tratado General de Ajedrez by the Argentinian chess player Roberto Grau (1900–1944). It was originally a four-part series published in the 1930s. The four volumes listed on Wikipedia are the following:
Tratado General de Ajedrez: Tomo I - Rudimentos
Tratado General de Ajedrez: Tomo ll - Estrategia (renamed "Táctica" in later editions)
Tratado General de Ajedrez: Tomo III - Conformación de peones
Tratado General de Ajedrez: Tomo IV - Estrategia superior
Has anybody read these books? If yes, what are they like?
(Apparently, they are still in print, though I could find only three volumes published by Editorial La Casa del Ajedrez: Rudimentos, Conformaciones de peones and Táctica y estrategia.)