Modern Chess Openings Twelfth Edition

by Walter Korn

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0713621990
• ISBN13: 9780713621990
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Adam & Charles Black
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A CHESS GUIDE!

A full chess openings book. Everything you want to study about chess openings you can find in it. It is resumed and it's not complex. Good and easy to read!

Required Equipment

The Chess-Player's mandatory reference work. If you are a postal player, or aspire to be a good player one day, this book absolutely, positively belongs on your shelf.You don't think careful study of the opening's will improve your game? Look at the author. (Nick DeFirmian.) Right after he finished this book, he won the U.S. Championship. 'Nuff Said!

Excellent reference

As a beginning player, (ICC standard rating around 1300), I find MCO to be extremely useful to familiarize myself quickly with the correct responses to virtually any opening. At my level, my opponents quickly leave the book; but up to the point they do, at least I'm not the first one to make a mistake. If one wants to quickly get familiar with an opening without studying it in great depth, MCO works. I'm sure it's useful to better players also; but I'm just commenting from a beginners point of view.

This is the classic opening reference for Good Reason!

This is the definative opening book, unless you want an encylopedic set for a lot more money! The book is very systematic and gives good background information. I don't think it will be outdated anytime in the next few decades... The MCO is a necessary reference for anyone studing from any chess book, as well as being highly instructive on its own merits. This should be one of the first books a player ever buys!

Extremely easy to use, absolutely necessary, a gold key!

The MCO is a handy one volume reference which covers is both exhaustive, and novice-friendly.Nobody can study chess with an opening book, and this is the one to have! Openings are organized by moves, discussed historically and philosophically, and are easily compared!