Modern Chess Strategy by Ludek Pachman

I will get this book later, what do you think of this book compare to other strategy books?

That's the one volume english language condensation of the original multivolume (which came out in German? Czech?) right?

I studied that book (the single volume one in descriptive notation) I think that is a great book, a classic, and one of the very best books on the middlegame ever. I wish someone would reprint it in algebraic. Jeremy Silman's Reassess Your Chess is in a large part based on Pachman's book. I think the two books work well together. Hearing what is essentially the same thing, twice, in slightly different ways with different emphasis and examples, I found to be clarifying and illuminating.  

Yeah I have that one volumue english translation. Looking at the few page of the book, it's a great book...

The book was originally written in Czech (3 volumes) and its English version is good. It can be found on the Internet

I managed to aquire all three volumes of the original english version. The third book is very hard to come by nowadays.  The one volume edition has some information left out and far fewer examples. If you can manage it try to get the original three volumes. They are far superior to the one volume book. 

Yes, the third book is now very expensive but I think you can still find the first two at fairly reasonable prices. I'm surprised no publisher has taken up the task of republishing these great works in full. 

I have aquired all 3 volumes to read for the year. They were on my wish list but now since I heard that they are a lot better than the 1 volume book I just bought them.

I had the one volume translation. At the time I tried to read it, I just not get into it at all. The descriptive notation may have been a part of it, but not all of it as many of my books then were in descriptive.

It may have been that I just wasn't ready for that book then. The only other books I remember reading before it, that were strategy oriented, were the basic primers "Simple Chess" by Stein and "Best Lessons of a Chess Coach."

After losing my collection during a move, I just started building a new one and decided to go with algebraic books only, so unless Pachman's book gets a modern revision, it'll stay on my pass list - its not a "must read" anyway, just one of several good classics that all cover the same ground.

I actually store all my games I read from books in a database called games in books I studied so I can go over the book again and just follow along from time to time.

this book can be freely download from the internet now

Well many masters recommend it. Modern Chess Strategy is a harder read compare to book like Simple Chess(a great book). Modern Chess Strategy is not an ideal first strategy book, it's better to take up Winning Chess Strategy or Simple Chess by Stean before reading Pachman's book..After reading some page of it, I would say it's a great book.There is nothing wrong in Chosing Pachman's book or other strategy books like Chess Strategy for Club Player or Silman's book, but of course there are readers who have preference on what type of book they read.

My alternatives are the newly re-translated edition of My System, and Marovic's "Secrets of Positional Chess." I plan to read both of these and start one of them within the next few days. Most likely My System first, then Secrets of Positional Chess.

After I finish both I want to finally work through the classic "Zurich 1953" by Bronstein. It seems like a good follow up to help cement the ideas from the other two books.

The book that changed my chess envision forever is the lazy masterpiece of Richard Reti "Modern Ideas in Chess". It is a very thin book, very easy to read, but the quality of the commentary and the insight of the text prose is nothing short of amazing. It's probably the best chess book I have ever read.

@pfren what rating is Modern Ideas In Chess best directed at? I've noticed that book but never really "looked"at it. As you can see , im a lower rated player who struggles with faster games. Thanks in advance

I bought this book en english. Unfortunatelly I have only 2 edition of part this book in Czech. So, can me evrybody help with following problems? There is using chess notation, wchich is for me new. Where can I get good articel About it?

The book uses descriptive notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_notation

Thank you.