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Re: New book: Isolani Strategy
Reply #10 - 03/04/12 at 20:01:45
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Bruce Pandolfini's 1989 book Weapons of Chess has a very well organized sequence of chapters devoted to isolani and the IQP specifically (pages 113-181).

I feel these chapters are the best explanation of the IQP strengths and weaknesses I have ever had the pleasure to encounter.
I felt that way even before I found a couple other people on the web giving much the same evaluation of these chapters.
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Re: New book: Isolani Strategy
Reply #9 - 02/28/12 at 07:28:36
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I bought the original isolani book by the same authors nearly 20 years ago - and regreted it after a short time. 
Hundreds of examples, brief annotations, little to no conclusions or connecting prose. In case of opening books such a case would be called a "DB dump".

Psakhis deals with the attacking potential for both isolani and hanging pawns in Advanced Chess Tactics. Both topics get their own chapter. This is heavy stuff though.
Ivan Sokolov also had a lot of material, at least about the IQP, in his book. I don't remember if he dealt with hanging pawns too. 
Baburin is probably still first choice.
  
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Re: New book: Isolani Strategy
Reply #8 - 02/27/12 at 14:24:51
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This book is as stated elsewhere in the thread an updated version of an earlier book from 1995.
That book was written by Mikhalchisin, Sorokowski and Braslavsky and had a foreword by Beliavsky.
From what I can see from games given in the excerpt there is much more prose in the new edition.
Besides that the topics covered seems to be much of the same.

 
  
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Re: New book: Isolani Strategy
Reply #7 - 02/27/12 at 06:52:10
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IMJohnCox wrote on 02/26/12 at 21:39:08:
The OP may well already know this, but the best book on this by far is Winning Pawn Structures, by Baburin. However, it's rather hard to find if you don't have it, owing to some kind of author/publisher dispute whose details I forget.


Unfortunately, second-hand copies of Baburin's book are listed for sale at prices so high one can only wonder what these booksellers are thinking; perhaps they are hoping that a multi-millionare chess enthusiast will stop at nothing to own one.

Thus for a while now I've been looking forward to this publication: http://www.everymanchess.com/chess/books/Attacking_with_the_Isolated_Queen%27s_P...
  
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Re: New book: Isolani Strategy
Reply #6 - 02/26/12 at 21:39:08
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The OP may well already know this, but the best book on this by far is Winning Pawn Structures, by Baburin. However, it's rather hard to find if you don't have it, owing to some kind of author/publisher dispute whose details I forget.
  
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Re: New book: Isolani Strategy
Reply #5 - 02/26/12 at 21:24:01
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Thanks for that link, atticus! I found "Hanging Pawns" from Mikhalchishin. At Amazon.com, I also found one review, which is unfortunately not very positive:

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Somewhat disappointing. Just a collection of middlegame fragments of games that deal with the subject matter. All the annotations are pretty light and do not really explain the subject matter of hanging pawns. There is no catagorizing of the middlegame fragments. Looks like the editor was out to lunch. If you want a book that explains about the subject of hanging pawns, look elsewhere.

Does anybody know that book and can give some comment?

(My apologies, PatzerKing, for sort of hijacking your thread. But when you often have IQPs in your openings, maybe hanging pawns are also of some interest for you!?)

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Re: New book: Isolani Strategy
Reply #4 - 02/26/12 at 19:11:16
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http://www.betterworldbooks.com/hanging-pawns-id-187947977X.aspx maybe?
  
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Re: New book: Isolani Strategy
Reply #3 - 02/26/12 at 18:24:48
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Is there any book out there that deals more or less exclusively with hanging pawns? (I know that there is Sokolov's "Winning Chess Middlegames" and Marovic's "Understanding Pawn Play in Chess" and some more, but all of them cover also isolated and doubled and whatever pawns, therefore they don't go so much into details as "Isolany Strategy" does.)

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Re: New book: Isolani Strategy
Reply #2 - 02/26/12 at 16:42:00
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PatzerKing wrote on 02/22/12 at 07:07:12:
Hi,

due to the fact that many of my opening lines for White are based on ICQ positions I am interested in any new book that covers the issue of Isolani.
There came a new book out:

Isolani Strategy
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Isolated Queen's Pawn
by Alexander Beliavsky, Oleg Stetsko, Adrian Mikhalchishin

 
Publisher: Russian Chess House, 2012
Edition: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-5-94693-227-1
Pages: 238
Language: English

Link:
http://www.newinchess.com/Shop/ProductDetails.aspx?ProductID=7050&utm_campaign=c...

pdf excerpt:
http://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/PDFs/7050.pdf


Have there been any reviews of this book or has someone experience with this book?

I am interested if it is worth to buy.

If I'm not mistaken, this is merely a new edition of an earlier work by these same authors printed perhaps 12 years ago. I have the earlier work, and it's okay but nothing special. A series of set positions separately considered. Reading it, there seemed to me to be a slight bias against the IQP, or perhaps it would be more correct to say, a greater interest in defending than in attacking.
  
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Re: New book: Isolani Strategy
Reply #1 - 02/26/12 at 14:49:08
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Another book addressing the IQP is "Advanced Chess Tactics - by Lev Psakhis"   
http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/products/2/141/advanced_chess_tactics_-_by_lev_psa...

I don't have it myself (yet) so I can't tell you anything abouit it. It seems quite interesting though with a lot of quality analysis.
  
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New book: Isolani Strategy
02/22/12 at 07:07:12
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Hi,

due to the fact that many of my opening lines for White are based on ICQ positions I am interested in any new book that covers the issue of Isolani.
There came a new book out:

Isolani Strategy
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Isolated Queen's Pawn
by Alexander Beliavsky, Oleg Stetsko, Adrian Mikhalchishin

 
Publisher: Russian Chess House, 2012
Edition: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-5-94693-227-1
Pages: 238
Language: English

Link:
http://www.newinchess.com/Shop/ProductDetails.aspx?ProductID=7050&utm_campaign=c...

pdf excerpt:
http://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/PDFs/7050.pdf


Have there been any reviews of this book or has someone experience with this book?

I am interested if it is worth to buy.
  
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