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Hey man I noticed nobody answered your question and only talked about how the books explain the opening theory I love MCO because of the explanations it give on the purpose of the openings before the diagrams anyways by now you have probably figured it out but ill still say this for anyone else wonderingĤ h4.Bc4(1) You never "get it" the first time, you have to go back and forth back and forth between games and the book's lines and advice until things gel. Making use of the Soltis book, or any opening book requires quite a lot of study. For instance a Caro Kann has much more in common with Queen's Gambit games than it does with 1.e4 e5 games. But it's about pawn structures that arise from openings and it enables you to really connect the dots between seemingly different openings. I agree that it's dreadful.Īndy Soltis' Pawn Structure Chess is IMO a very good book for openings, even though it's not about openings at all. (And 8 ball of course for the bar table crowd.) 1 pocket is a relatively recent vice, but it's growing. Yes they play a bit of straight pool on the east coast. In anything you do always provide yourself with context. Then it becomes a learning process which you can apply yourself as opposed to a big random set of moves. I think the problem with opening books is they are only instructive if you look over the large tree find where you are confused and work through some of the issues the position is presenting and try and solve them WITHOUT help from other sources.
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Strangely I found the khalifman opening for anand series fantastically instructive as well. I think the other book discussed in that link, the Watson books, are the answer - There are three volumes and I don't pretend to have studied them closely (it's on my million year list of things to do, along with learning latin, and perfecting my breakshot in straight pool) but they really seem to fit the bill for books on opening that tell you more than just a bunch of variations and actually get into some of the larger thematic issues.ĭo people still play straight pool on the east coast(in sac town all they want to do is play god forsaken one pocket-i would rather watch paint dry.)Īnd I second the watson opening book recommendation. To get properly comprehensive, however, you would need to buy a seperate book on each opening. I second Gimly's question-what IS a good book on openings with theory?Īdmittedly the OP is asking a question, but the book is one of the best. If MCO was a stock, I'd be short selling it. but those big opening encyclopedia's are IMHO nothing but doorstops for anyone with a computer.
There's no doubt that a db can't do it all for you, there's still A LOT that a real GM or IM writing a book on a specific opening can tell you. Meanwhile, printed books are getting stale from the day you buy one. I can upload fresh games from the web and the db utility can check those newly imported games for games which play lines in my "repertoire" which I should pay attention to.
Using data that's from the past two or three years if I want to play only what's in fashion. If I want to learn the best Caro Kann lines, let's say, I can filter for top players using that CK and see what lines they're playing. Using a (free!) database, I can generate a cross table that's easier to read, contains much more information, is assembled from data I can tweak and adjust to my own preferences, and that's clickable so i can follow the lines on an onscreen board.
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FWIW I think database software makes MCO type books obsolete.
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