I studied that book (the single volume one in descriptive notation) I think that is a great book, a classic, and one of the very best books on the middlegame ever. I wish someone would reprint it in algebraic. Jeremy Silman's Reassess Your Chess is in a large part based on Pachman's book. I think the two books work well together. Hearing what is essentially the same thing, twice, in slightly different ways with different emphasis and examples, I found to be clarifying and illuminating.
I managed to aquire all three volumes of the original english version. The third book is very hard to come by nowadays. The one volume edition has some information left out and far fewer examples. If you can manage it try to get the original three volumes. They are far superior to the one volume book.
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Yes, the third book is now very expensive but I think you can still find the first two at fairly reasonable prices. I'm surprised no publisher has taken up the task of republishing these great works in full.
I had the one volume translation. At the time I tried to read it, I just not get into it at all. The descriptive notation may have been a part of it, but not all of it as many of my books then were in descriptive.
It may have been that I just wasn't ready for that book then. The only other books I remember reading before it, that were strategy oriented, were the basic primers "Simple Chess" by Stein and "Best Lessons of a Chess Coach."
After losing my collection during a move, I just started building a new one and decided to go with algebraic books only, so unless Pachman's book gets a modern revision, it'll stay on my pass list - its not a "must read" anyway, just one of several good classics that all cover the same ground.
Well many masters recommend it. Modern Chess Strategy is a harder read compare to book like Simple Chess(a great book). Modern Chess Strategy is not an ideal first strategy book, it's better to take up Winning Chess Strategy or Simple Chess by Stean before reading Pachman's book..After reading some page of it, I would say it's a great book.There is nothing wrong in Chosing Pachman's book or other strategy books like Chess Strategy for Club Player or Silman's book, but of course there are readers who have preference on what type of book they read.
My alternatives are the newly re-translated edition of My System, and Marovic's "Secrets of Positional Chess." I plan to read both of these and start one of them within the next few days. Most likely My System first, then Secrets of Positional Chess.
@pfren what rating is Modern Ideas In Chess best directed at? I've noticed that book but never really "looked"at it. As you can see , im a lower rated player who struggles with faster games. Thanks in advance
I bought this book en english. Unfortunatelly I have only 2 edition of part this book in Czech. So, can me evrybody help with following problems? There is using chess notation, wchich is for me new. Where can I get good articel About it?
Watson is an excellent writer and the text and examples are clearer than in many instructional books. I think Watson is a better teacher -- without trying -- than some teachers giving it their all. But ultimately Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy is not a teaching book and it is a terrible choice for a first strategy book since the entire point of the book, made over and over and over again, is that classical principles of positional play are inadequate for high level competitive chess. A foundation in positional chess is a prerequisite. So, if you don't already have a firm grasp of positional chess 'rules' why read a critique of them? As a book about breaking the rules -- the ideal reader of this book IMO is a national master who plays a conservative game and needs to have his preconceptions shaken up a bit if he's to push on to greater heights... (in short, we should take up a collection and buy it for NM Ozzie Cobblepot )
I swear the whole book is a thorough, well-written, intelligently-supported-by-examples, exposition of this idea... "strong variations win chess games, and strong players know when to calculate strong variations accurately and creatively without reliance on (or hindrance from) the mental short-cut/blinders of so-called sound principle."
I'm sure he's right -- I'm also sure that for me, my rating has a lot of improvement left by playing better more correct more principled and accurate and deep (and better understood) positional chess than from finding the occassional correct anti-positional/dynamic move. (Although I do hi-five the cat when I find one!)
Mihai Suba's Dynamic Chess Strategy is much in the same vein as Watson by the way... although Suba's argument is for a fuller appreciation of active pieces and for "dynamic" assessment of positions rather than "static."
I got "Secrets..." for Christmas, and honestly I'm pretty disappointed. As JG27Pyth pointed out, Watson explicitly says it's NOT an instructional book. It seems like his basic point is that there are no useful rules in chess anymore -- it's all about concrete analysis. Then he proves his point by giving a whole bunch of examples of modern games that blatantly violate Nimzowitch's rules. I agree with him that concrete analysis always trumps general rules, but I think it's still helpful for amateurs to have general rules in mind. (And in reality, you need to know a lot of rules in order to successfully assess concrete continuations.) For that reason I've found Silman's books about imbalances MUCH more helpful. Rather than just saying "rules are useless", Silman's point is that rules are helpful for understanding a position, and that rules + concrete analysis is the way to find the best continuation.
The problem with just playing with the good old general principles as your guidelines is that you won't know whats happening when somebody blows up their own pawn structure to gain the initiative or sticks both knights on the side of the board to prevent critical pawn breaks/control important squares etc, etc. Modern chess at the highest levels is what they refer to as 'concrete' i.e. thats why you see middlegame positions explained by means of variations rather than words, which is why its tougher and tougher for us mere mortals to understand whats going on in a lot of games.
I'm only in chapter 3 but I would say this book is 100% relevant today. Its an older book so there will be a few analytical errors here and there because Watson didn't have the advantage of working with stockfish 15+. However, he clearly explains how some of Nimzo's principles are dated, outright wrong in many instances, or expands on them. Don't get me wrong. This book is not a refutation to Nimzo's My System but rather it expands or improves on Nimzo's "system."
I would say that Watson's book covers enough positional theory to make it worth the time for anyone below NM level but not for beginners. Personally, this book would have been very helpful earlier in my chess career (if I may call it that). When I was newer to chess I would routinely get crushed out of the opening and didn't understand how that was possible when I was applying the best chess principles. If anyone is in a similar situation this book will be very valuable. The book covers all sorts of topics - not just openings - and its extremely well researched with lots of word explanations. As far as I can tell, full games are provided for every concept analyzed. This is great if you want to download the games online and explore on your own. Makes life a lot easier.
It is now seventy years since Nimzowitsch wrote his monumental work My System. While it remains a fundamental work on chess strategy, the way chess positions are handled has changed greatly since Nimzowitsch's time - both refinements to existing ideas, and completely new concepts.
John Watson's book fulfils the need for a thorough, profound work on the modern handling of chess positions, and how Nimzowitsch's theories - still controversial and revolutionary at the time My System was written - have been refined and used alongside classical concepts. 152ee80cbc
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