THERE MIGHT BE DELAY THAN THE ESTIMATED DELIVERY DATE DUE TO COVID-19. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book.
As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Each page is checked manually before printing. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. NO changes have been made to the original text. Language: Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. – American Chess Correspondent, writing about the tenth edition.Leatherbound. the most important single book in world chess literature". CollinsĬompletely revised by Larry Evans under the editorship of Walter Korn SergeantĮdited and completely revised by Walter KornĬompletely revised by Walter Korn and John W. White, completely revised by Walter Korn under the editorship of R. White, completely revised by Reuben Fine, R. 13 in almost every respect" and comparable in quality to NCO. John Watson wrote that MCO-13 "really isn't up to modern expectations", but called MCO-14 "a vast improvement over its predecessor No. Since 1980, there have been other one-volume opening encyclopedias to rival MCO: Batsford Chess Openings ( BCO) in 19, Nunn's Chess Openings ( NCO) in 1999, and Paul van der Sterren's Fundamental Chess Openings in 2009. The most recent edition, MCO-15 in 2008, was written and edited by de Firmian.
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The first twelve editions used descriptive notation to record the moves, and only with MCO-13 in 1990 did the series begin to use the now-standard algebraic notation. Korn was assisted on certain editions by Jack Collins, Larry Evans, and Nick de Firmian Evans and de Firmian have held the U.S. As Practical Chess Openings was not revised in any further editions, MCO remained the most popular English language opening reference.Īmerican Walter Korn worked on the seventh through thirteenth editions, assuming editorship starting with MCO-8 in 1952. Fine was not able to work on subsequent editions of MCO, so in 1948 he wrote Practical Chess Openings. In 1939, Reuben Fine, who had won the AVRO tournament the year before, edited MCO. Sergeant and Maurice Edward Goldstein providing revisions starting with the fourth edition in 1925. Editions through at least 1946 continued to be attributed to Griffith and White, with P. The first three editions (1911, 1913, and 1916) were the work of Griffith (who won the 1912 British Championship) and White, with an introduction by Henry Ernest Atkins. In 1977, Harry Golombek said "The work became popular at once and for over forty years was regarded as the main book on the openings throughout the world." Early editions were small enough to fit in a pocket (the first edition was 190 pages), but later editions grew and the fifteenth and most recent version is 768 pages. MCO was popular with English-speaking players and has continued to be updated throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, with fifteen editions from 1911 through 2008. HistoryĪlthough Bilguer's Handbuch des Schachspiels was more authoritative at the time MCO was first published, it was last published between 19, and was becoming outdated by the 1930s.
Harry Golombek called it "the first scientific study of the openings in the twentieth century". It has since been through fifteen editions. Modern Chess Openings (usually called MCO) is a reference book on chess openings, first published in 1911 by the British players Richard Clewin Griffith (1872–1955) and John Herbert White (1880–1920).
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