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Yet the use of computer technology has not really changed the ancient game of chess. The commercial computer programs are excellent sparing partners for most players and work well calculating three- to five-move variations. The databases allow grandmasters and tournament players the ability to research potential opponents or view thousands of games on an opening variation. It has been ten years since I wrote MCO-13 (my first effort in this long series), and there have been changes in not only the chess openings, but in the approach to chess itself, as many players now study with computers and consult large databases of grandmaster and other games. Some pages are dense material, reflecting the current focus on these openings, while others are less dense and more suitable for beginners. The best play (as is currently known) is usually the main variation, and sidelines are either clever traps and tricks that are good to know, interesting but little tested plans or enticing mistaken strategies along with their refutation. The major content of the book is the tables and notes of chess variations. The chapter introductions give an overview of the strategic concepts and some historical information. The book is divided into five sections of major openings groups, each section containing chapters of the specific openings (or major variations of the openings). The book seeks to give the reader a clear and concise presentation of whichever chess opening he (she) chooses, using the simple algebraic chess notation. Modern Chess Openings (MCO) has been the standard English language work on chess openings for almost a century, each new edition presenting the latest strategies. Nick de Firmian Current US Chess Champion August 1999 Special thanks to David Stanford Burr, who diligently reviewed the typeset pages. Many thanks to Random House editors Mark Gottlieb and Stanley Newman and production manager Eli Hausknecht, who took this mass of material and produced a finished book.
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He also contributed historical information and researched chess games.Ĭollected and organized more than a million games in creating the database I used in the production of MCO-14. Graham HillyardĮnsured a high technical standard by doing most of the arduous job of proofreading and checking transliteration. Leverett explored with a year of painstaking care.Īlthough I edited and checked the contributions to conform to the rest of the book, the reader may still note a small difference in the style of these sections. This long chapter covers many systems that Dr. International Master Elliott Winslow and National Master Stephan BrandweinĬontributed the long chapter on the Queen's Gambit Declined and most of the work on the romantic-era double king pawn openings (The King's Gambit, Giuoco Piano, Four Knights' Defense, Philidor's Defense, Bishop's Opening, etc.).Ĭontributed the English Opening, his specialty. The Chess Director of San Francisco's Mechanic's Institute contributed the Accelerated Dragon and coauthored the Slav and Semi-Slav chapter with de Firmian. John wrote the chapters on the Benko Gambit, the Bogo-Indian Defense, the Griinfeld Defense, and the King's Indian Defense. I last teamed up with John in preparing Deep Blue's openings for its successful match against Kasparov, and was very pleased he was able to contribute the sections on the Indian Defenses in which he specializes. Still there was much more that needed to be done and I wish to gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the following people. Modern Chess Openings, 14 ed., was an enormous task to complete, consuming twenty months of long hours by your author. Random House website address: Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 98765432 Fourteenth Edition Portions of this work were previously published, in different form, in Modern Chess Openings, 13th Edition, by Nick de Firmian and Walter Korn, published by David McKay Company, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1990. Published in the United States by David McKay Company, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
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