comprehensive pawn- structure- chess book(s)

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a very useful book

pawn structre

by a strong GM

he explains very well

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A nice book is by Baburin "Winning pawn structures", BUT this is only about the isolated queen pawn and the structures this can lead to, like hanging pawns and so on. Unfortunately it is out of print as far as I know...

Baburin's book is indeed excellent for the IQP and resulting structures. You are correct, though: it is out of print. Used copies are very costly; the least expensive copy on Amazon is US $261. 

I do own a copy fortunately.

If I remember it right, Baburin and his publisher had a big long struggle. In the end the book went out of print.

But as we are on chess.com let's not forget to mention Danny Rensch's video series "Pawn Structures 101" covering almost all typical pawn stuctures

At http://simplifychess.com/ they also something similar. Their naming of the strucutres reminds me on the Soltis book

Thank you for the link to simplifychess.com. I didn't know about that site, but it looks excellent. As you suggest, the terminology is similar to Soltis. A more recent book, "Chess Structures" by GM Mauricio Flores Rios, also uses a lot of Soltis's names for pawn structures.

There are many other pawn structure books, but I'm thinking that for the OP, those two books plus the Rensch videos and simplifychess should be enough to get quite a good understanding of the most important structures.

You are right about out of prints being expensive. I wish there was a way to have these books reprinted. 

Thanks for more postings and contributions. 

Please make your point efficiently. I appreciate it. 

I think Small Steps to Giant Improvement: Master Pawn Play in Chess by Sam Shankland would be helpful. He is usually clear and concise with anything he explains. 

Thank you for your contribution.  Could you  us tell how many formations he covers? Does he explains all plans for each formation clearly. Does he gives examples?  Whatever you can tell about the book please.  This is the first time someone mentioned his book so far as I remember. 

I have been thinking of I. Q. P.  as one pawn without support of any other until I started to read the  book by A.  Solltis about pawn structure. Then I realized that it is a formation and not just an isolated pawn.  

Is this only one formation or there are more than one formation? I have to say I made a fast review of the book after reading first few chapters. So I am going back to the beginning and read carefully. 

Tell us if you can more about the book by Natural, please. 

Joseph, the IQP is a very important basic structure. Soltis, if I recall correctly, includes it in the Queen's Gambit family, though it can also arise in many other openings. You can see in Soltis what it typically looks like. It can lead to other structures, as mentioned by @zeitnotakrobat, such as these:

Another fairly typical structure resulting from the IQP is this:

Those are the main transformations from the IQP. And I agree with @PawnstormPossie that "structure" and "formation" are used interchangeably.

Damn smart phones suggesting any word they Wish!

Edit: last line:  natural must be B. A. B. U. R. I. N.  As the name of writer of the mentioned book.