Pawn Pleasure

This week I read chapter 11, The Doubled Pawn and Restraint from My System.

Nimzowitsch said what, until recently, I'd always heard. And that is that doubled pawns are a serious weakness.

However, I've also read and heard in chess videos that, yes, doubled pawns can be a serious weakness, but they can offer some compensation such as an open file. And, in the last few months I've found opening lines that accept doubled pawns.

So my questions are this:

1. For doubled pawns, backwards pawns and isolated pawns, how would you generally rate their weakness. Maybe a scale of 0 -10, 10 being the weakest possible

2. For doubled pawns, backwards pawns and isolated pawns, what are some general ways to deal with their weaknesses.

3. For each of these pawn weaknesses, what are some general, if any, possible benefits.

I think sometimes doubled pawns can be strong. I've always thought white's doubled c pawn in some lines of French and Nimzo_indian are a plus, not a minus.

Often in these position playing c4 is a plus. The doubled pawns allow you to play it twice.

Well, 1. Double pawns 4.8/10

2. Defend them, or develop at the same time, defending them. getting them to a better square, defend the weakness square the square infront.

3. i am sorry I don't understand.

but for sure doubled pawns have negative and positive, for double pawns can give open files, and more control over the center.

Botvinnik handled doubled pawns masterfully.

Thanks achja.

I guess, accordingly, that something like this on the c-file could server as a similar 'nut'.

What do you think the next few moves for black would be?

I see a configuration like this:

Get my pieces pointed to the king side and o-o-o.

Thanks. I went and tried to create my formation, and found it quite difficult.