Picking between pawn structure books - Chess Forums - Page 2

OldPatzerMike

Sep 13, 2018

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IpswichMatt wrote:

For what it's worth, you could add Baburin's Winning Pawn Structures to your list. Out of print now and over £1000 on Amazon, but you might get lucky on eBay or something.

Baburin's book is incredibly good, and it's available on abebooks.com for the "bargain" price of US $89.81. The shipping charge to the US from Leiden, the Netherlands, is US $17.90.

RussBell

Sep 14, 2018

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OldPatzerMike wrote:

IpswichMatt wrote:

For what it's worth, you could add Baburin's Winning Pawn Structures to your list. Out of print now and over £1000 on Amazon, but you might get lucky on eBay or something.

Baburin's book is incredibly good, and it's available on abebooks.com for the "bargain" price of US $89.81. The shipping charge to the US from Leiden, the Netherlands, is US $17.90.

You can download a pdf copy of the book from Scribd. The site is legitimate, I have downloaded dozens of pdf copies of chess books from the site. They have a free 30 day free trial (otherwise I think it is $10USD/month). If you're determined, you can download lots of copies of chess books in 30 days...(from the "documents" menu)...

https://www.scribd.com/document/31596543/Chess-eBook-Baburin-Winning-Pawn-Structures

https://www.scribd.com/search?content_type=documents&page=1&query=winning%20pawn%20structures%20baburin

OldPatzerMike

Sep 14, 2018

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RussBell wrote:

You can download a pdf copy of the book from Scribd. The site is legitimate, I have downloaded dozens of pdf copies of chess books from the site. They have a free 30 day free trial (otherwise I think it is $10USD/month). If you're determined, you can download lots of copies of chess books in 30 days...(from the "documents" menu)...

https://www.scribd.com/document/31596543/Chess-eBook-Baburin-Winning-Pawn-Structures

https://www.scribd.com/search?content_type=documents&page=1&query=winning%20pawn%20structures%20baburin

Thank you, Russ. I had a scribd subscription for a couple of months last year and picked up several other books that are out of print and expensive as used books. I didn't look for Baburin because a chess.com member had earlier sent me a pdf file of the book. Good to know it's available there.

IMKeto

Sep 14, 2018

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jbolden1517 wrote:

I'm thinking of doing a pawn structure book over the next year and would like opinions as to which is best. Assume by the time I'm doing this I'm about 1500. I've heard good things about:

Rios' Chess Structures: -- https://www.amazon.com/Chess-Structures-Mauricio-Flores-Rios/dp/1784830003
Soltis Pawn Structure Chess -- https://www.amazon.com/Pawn-Structure-Chess-Andrew-Soltis/dp/1849940703/
Grooten's Chess Strategy for Club Players -- https://www.amazon.com/Chess-Strategy-Club-Players-Positional/dp/9056917161/
Kmoch's Pawn Power -- https://www.amazon.com/Pawn-Power-Chess-Dover/dp/0486264866/

Is this at least the right short list or should other books be on it?

I'm comfortable with descriptive notation so that isn't a deal breaker for Kmoch. I've heard Soltis is dated so I'm a bit worried there. Kmoch is even more dated but I haven't heard the same complaint. Is that because Kmoch is so dated that people just figure everyone knows they are buying a classic? Or is it because Kmoch's language is eternal and so dated does't matter?

Rios' book gets great reviews but also seems to be one that many people think is too advanced for say a 1500.

So for the people who have read one or something not on the list what would be your advice and why?

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/chess-books-on-pawn-play-and-structure

SmyslovFan

Sep 14, 2018

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I'd double check that. Last time I spoke to the author, he seemed to be under the impression it is not available.