Chess programs could use search from the beginning and look through all possible continuations in detail to find the best next move, but as this is quite time-consuming and there already exists a lot of literature about different opening lines, opening books save time and provide higher quality of play. Error rating book.Ĭhess programs often look up the positions at the beginning of the game in an Opening Book. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. In, 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. 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 through Early editions were small enough to fit in a pocket the first edition was pages, but later editions grew and the fifteenth and most recent version is pages. Although Bilguer's Handbuch des Schachspiels was more authoritative at the time MCO was first published, it was last published between and, and was becoming outdated by the s. Harry Golombek called it "the first scientific study of the openings in the twentieth century". It has since been through fifteen editions.
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