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Pros & Cons

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Pros

This is an awesome book that i'll study continuously all year long. Once you're at the intermediate level or better, this book is very helpful! I mean it's just a great book for everyone, from beginners to more advanced players.

Imagine 20+ variations to every opening and a dissertation on the pros and cons of each in relatively terse prose. This is probably not the most recent edition, but just about any recent revision should work nicely. The 15th edition is the best of the... Read More

Mco variations are extremely comprehensive, enough for a gm most of the time. Unlike mco, in nco there's an introduction for like the sicilian. That's mco in a nutshell.

It has tables of variations with tons of extra footnotes, far more than anyone could memorize. The 16th edition is overdue. The only downside is that there are a few errors and typos in the book.

Cons

It's supposed to show columns 2 thru 6 across the top with the entires for each column in tabular format below. There are significant spelling errors and the formatting is atrocious. A headache to try to read through.

It would be a disserve to not account for the fact that you can find much deeper analysis with computers and online programs. This book is more of an encyclopedic reference than it is a book that actually explains the openings and the theory behind th... Read More

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Quality

Heres the good and the bad with the bookwhats good about this bookit provides many openings with dozens of variations and comme... Read More

This might be me being super nitpicky sorry

This could be my lack of grandmaster skillset showing but theres got to be an easier and more efficient way of organizing the t... Read More

Competitiveness

Gift for my grandson whos an awesome chess player

Easy to follow the algebraic notation on a chess board

However none of them will give a chess player a good understanding of any chess opening

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This product had a total of 1,528 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 19 2023.