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| Mar-06-12 | | hms123: <elric> If you are interested in playing with an IQP, then the book to find is Baburin's <Winning Pawn Structures> http://www.amazon.com/Winning-Pawn-... It is phenomenally good. I think it is possible to download a copy if you google it. |
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| Mar-06-12 | | benjinathan: Why does that book cost as much as $1400? |
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| Mar-06-12 | | elric: One of the write ups on Amazon suggest that this book is for players who are rated about 2000 ? |
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| Mar-06-12 | | hms123: <elric> I think any good middlegame book that focuses on the positional aspects of the IQP is of necessity going to be at a higher level. <benjinathan> It's out of print--supply and demand and all that. I have it on my ipad. |
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| Mar-06-12 | | benjinathan: <supply and demand and all that> Oh, I get that. I would have thought the fact that one can get the book for free on the internet might cut into the demand- I guess not for collectors. |
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| Mar-06-12 | | hms123: <benjinathan>
I just checked amazon and found this:
<$2,252.17
+ $3.99shipping
Used - Like New>
for the Baburin book. At that price you'd think they pay for the shipping themselves, or send it in an armoured car. If I ever run across a copy at some reasonable price, I will certainly buy it despite already having an electronic copy. |
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| Mar-06-12 | | benjinathan: Now I know what to keep an eye out for.
You would think that if someone bought the book for 2k the selller would throw in the $3.99 shipping. |
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| Mar-07-12 | | elric: Lets hope it gets reprinted ! |
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| Mar-07-12 | | parisattack: The Baburin book shows up on eBay fairly often, seems to go for $50-$100 typically. |
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| Mar-07-12 | | hms123: <parisattack> Thanks. That's good to know. I will keep an eye out for it. |
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| Mar-07-12 | | hms123: <elric> I found this book for you: <Strengths and Weaknesses of the Isolated Queen's Pawn
by Alexander Beliavsky, Oleg Stetsko and Adrian Mikhalchishin
238pp. (Russian Chess House, 2012)
Read an excerpt here http://shop.chesscafe.com/images/pr...Aaron Nimzowitsch, one of the greatest chess researchers, called the problem of the isolani - his term for the isolated d-pawn - 'one of the cardinal problems in the whole theory of positional play'. In the present book, on the basis of numerous practical examples, the authors explain the methods of attack and defence in positions with an isolated d-pawn, from just after the opening to deep into the endgame. Grandmaster Alexander Beliavsky is best known as a four-times winner of the USSR Championship, grandmaster Adrian Mikhalchishin was a member of Karpov's training team during his epic matches with Garry Kasparov, and national master Oleg Stetsko is a highly experienced trainer and writer.> I don't know anything about it, but you might want to look for reviews of it in the next few weeks. |
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| Mar-08-12 | | elric: Thanks for that. I will certainly have a look.
I haven't read Pawn Power in Chess by Kmoch. Does this cover the IQP etc ? |
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| Mar-08-12 | | hms123: <elric> I just leafed through my copy of Kmoch's book and didn't see any diagrams with IQP's. |
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| Mar-10-12 | | whiteshark: <Habent sua fata libelli <->> books have their own destiny. That sounds like a nice forum theme. :D
Hint to <hms123>: It's taken from <Isaac Lipnitzky's <"Questions of modern chess theory">> ... |
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| Mar-11-12 | | hms123: <whiteshark> Thanks for the excellent suggestion. As you likely noted from my <header>, Lipnitsky's book is one of my favorites. |
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| Mar-11-12 | | elric: I understand this book Questions of Modern Chess Theory took about 52 years before it was published in English. Is this where you are coming from about books having their own destiny ? |
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| Mar-11-12 | | hms123: <elric>
I just liked <whiteshark's> suggestion. He may have a better answer than I do. Here's a new book that picks up where Lipnitsky left off: Barsky's <The Ragozin Complex>. <The Ragozin Complex is a flexible and versatile chess opening system that, despite its popularity, rarely has been a subject of serious study in chess literature. A hybrid of the Queen’s Gambit and the Nimzo-Indian Defence, the Ragozin featured in a famous book by Soviet theoretician Lipnitsky in the 1950s. Bobby Fischer decided to learn Russian to be able to read that work and immediately afterwards started playing the Ragozin. In recent years the Ragozin has had a tremendous revival and is now being used at top level by players like Vladimir Kramnik, Levon Aronian and Vasily Ivanchuk. In this book, the first monograph on this important system, acclaimed chess author Vladimir Barsky provides a comprehensive coverage of themes and variations, both for Black and for White. For the first time in history, amateur players can acquaint themselves with the important Ragozin System and start playing this flexible opening with confidence.> http://www.amazon.com/Ragozin-Compl... And here's a postive review: http://www.chessvibes.com/reviews/r... I don't have the book yet, but it may be in my future. |
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| Mar-11-12 | | elric: This looks very interesting. |
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| Mar-11-12 | | cro777: Alexander Alexandrovich Shashin, a professional chess coach from Sankt Peterburg, Russia, and a former theoretical nuclear physicist, researching the chess game as a complex dynamic system, has developed a physics-like model of the game: material (chess pieces), time (pieces mobility) and space (center of gravity and packing density). His primary point is that chess, as a self-sufficient complex system which acts according to the known laws, can be analyzed using scientific methods as any other dynamic system. Chess has all the qualities of a complex system (the abundance of elements, hierarchy and a so-called "chaos zone", where it is impossible, in principle, to predict the direction that the system would develop in certain positions). The main part of his "post-non-classical" chess theory is a move-search algorithm, a method for finding the strongest move in any position. His new book, with a preliminary title "Best Play: Revolutionary Method for Finding the Strongest Move" and a foreword by Alexander Morozevich (who worked with Shashin), will be published in 2012 by Mongoose Press. http://www.bs-chess.com/latin/lectu... http://www.chesscafe.com/text/misha... |
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| Mar-11-12 | | hms123: <cro777> That is a fascinating interview with <Sashin>. The question: Is he as brilliant as he thinks he is, or is he just one more smart guy with a crazy theory? We may not know for a long time. |
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| Mar-11-12 | | whiteshark: <cro777> Thanks for posting the Shashin interviews. <hms123> Well, you probably have to decide it on your own. :D As a side note, it was
A Shashin vs Korchnoi, 1973, annotated by Shashin himself (here: http://gmchess.com/gmschool/teacher... ) that inspired me to create Game Collection: yzx - - -> best game of a chess player |
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| Mar-11-12 | | cro777: <hms123> <whiteshark> Is Shashin as brilliant as he thinks he is, or is he just one more smart guy with a crazy theory? In the preface to Shashin's book (to be published) Morozevich wrote: "I met Shashin in a very difficult moment in my career. Behind was 2002, one of the most unfortunate in my 15 years of professional activity...The fact that the period from July 2003 to July 2004 was the most successful in my entire career - largely credited to our 'guests around the table' discussions". Of course the theory of Alexander Shashin needs further development. It's computer implementation is expected to help in this development. |
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| Mar-11-12 | | hms123: <whiteshark>
I had to go back to the original banner for marketing reasons. I really did like your suggestion though as you will see shortly. |
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| Mar-14-12 | | hms123: <<Re-post>> <cro777: A preview (in Russian) of Alexander Shashin's book "Best Play: Revolutionary Method for Finding the Strongest Move" can be found here.
http://www.chesspro.ru/_events/2012...In an excerpt from the book Shashin describes one of the move-choice algorithms, the so-called "Tal" algorithm. As an illustration he uses the famous game Tal - Tolush (the USSR Championship, Leningrad 1956). This is the starting position for analysis:
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Qb6 8.Qd2 Qxb2 9.Rb1 Qa3 10.e5 dxe5 11.fxe5 Nfd7 12.Ne4 Qxa2 13.Rb3 Qa1+ 14.Kf2 Qa4 
click for larger view
Intuitively sensing that the position demands a sacrifice, Tal played here <15.Bb5!?>. Soon afterwards they found <15.Nxe6!> as the strongest move in this position. Using his method for finding the strongest move in any position, Shashin explains how to find moves such as 15.Nxe6 or 15.Bb5. He also refers to the book "Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 2". Kasparov thoroughly analysed the game Tal -Tolush as well.> Chessgames Bookie chessforum |
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| Mar-14-12 | | cro777: Thanks <hms123>. I wasn't careful. |
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