Baburin's Winning Pawn Structures is terrific and more than enough for most players. The World's Most Boring Chess Book is much more detailed, looking at the small nuances that can turn a isolated queen's pawn position from win to draw or vice versa. John Watson's review in 'Chess Life' explains what the book is all about rather well. Watson was very positive about the book but remember that he is a capable IM, very much in the target audience for the book (IMs and GMs and particularly diligent juniors).
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GMIanRogers wrote:
Baburin's Winning Pawn Structures is terrific and more than enough for most players. The World's Most Boring Chess Book is much more detailed, looking at the small nuances that can turn a isolated queen's pawn position from win to draw or vice versa. John Watson's review in 'Chess Life' explains what the book is all about rather well. Watson was very positive about the book but remember that he is a capable IM, very much in the target audience for the book (IMs and GMs and particularly diligent juniors).
Thanks! That's super helpful.
Don't need it (at my level) but I'll likely buy it and eventually study it anyway - just not immediately.
- Bill
GMIanRogers wrote:
Baburin's Winning Pawn Structures is terrific and more than enough for most players. The World's Most Boring Chess Book is much more detailed, looking at the small nuances that can turn a isolated queen's pawn position from win to draw or vice versa. John Watson's review in 'Chess Life' explains what the book is all about rather well. Watson was very positive about the book but remember that he is a capable IM, very much in the target audience for the book (IMs and GMs and particularly diligent juniors).
ps-- I do find exhaustive endgame books very useful-- like a car repair manual-- for seeing what I should have done after misplaying an ending. Somehow studying a type of ending after getting beat like a rented mule in one helps make it 'stick'
Bill
Topic looks great - but Baburin has extensive treatment of the endgame. Can anyone compare? Does this have significantly more, different etc than Baburin??
Thanks-Bill