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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

This new one provides me with considerable amounts of analysis and variations of the current opening that are being used today ... Read More

It contains useful description of many openings and wonderfully organizes variations of openings in easy to read columns and ev... Read More

Also the books binding and spine are shite just being honestim not that rough with books in my opinion but i just nearly right... Read More

Two ways this book could be made even better would be if a hard cover edition were made and if each column contained a diagram

Price

I bought this at a books a million for 32 dollars after tax and boy is this a tough one to digest for me personally

If you have never studied openings then buy the cheapest version because there is a lot of value in the basic openings that are... Read More

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This product had a total of 1,640 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 28 2024.