Chess tactics and endgames books

Originally posted by DeepThought
The Silman book is fine. Does the Soltis book cover IQP positions? It's difficult to find books that do anything much more than say that the player with the isolani should try to keep pieces on the board, that the rooks are nice on the two open files, and that the IQP should be pushed forward to open lines and enable attacking chances. A bit more than one paragraph and an annotated game would be nice.

I have an entire book on IQP by Alexander Baburin.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0713480092/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1424655639&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SY200_QL40&keywords=Baburin&dpPl=1&dpID=41GpgOG9zqL&ref=plSrch

Originally posted by Marinkatomb
I have an entire book on IQP by Alexander Baburin.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0713480092/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1424655639&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SY200_QL40&keywords=Baburin&dpPl=1&dpID=41GpgOG9zqL&ref=plSrch

It looks ideal, but a little expensive.

Originally posted by DeepThought
It looks ideal, but a little expensive.

Yes it's just out of stock on Amazon. I'm sure it's possible to find it somewhere for the normal price. The book is really excellent, it deals with the IQP for both colours and has a quite dizzying amount of well written analysis. Highly recommended. 😉

Originally posted by Marinkatomb
Yes it's just out of stock on Amazon. I'm sure it's possible to find it somewhere for the normal price. The book is really excellent, it deals with the IQP for both colours and has a quite dizzying amount of well written analysis. Highly recommended. 😉

Yes, I used the "look inside" feature. Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for it.

Originally posted by Marinkatomb
Yes it's just out of stock on Amazon. I'm sure it's possible to find it somewhere for the normal price. The book is really excellent, it deals with the IQP for both colours and has a quite dizzying amount of well written analysis. Highly recommended. 😉

Irritatingly it is out of print and bookshops seem to think that charging people ten times the RRP is in some way ethically justified because "it's the market". Hopefully the publishers will do another run of the book and knock these con artists into touch.

If you refer to chess as faffing around with the pieces then you are not getting a feel for the game it shouldn't feel like ya faffing as why play it then ?? And that camera is poo because you have to make sure its straight etc then by the time you have got it up and set you may as well have looked in the book and set it up

Originally posted by luckyrookie
If you refer to chess as faffing around with the pieces then you are not getting a feel for the game it shouldn't feel like ya faffing as why play it then ?? And that camera is poo because you have to make sure its straight etc then by the time you have got it up and set you may as well have looked in the book and set it up

I gave this a "thumbs up" even though I don't know what it means, as I think it may be the first time that a Dickens character has seen fit to post on the forum!

Originally posted by Paul Leggett
I gave this a "thumbs up" even though I don't know what it means, as I think it may be the first time that a Dickens character has seen fit to post on the forum!

He is referring to the 15th post.