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). The fifteenth edition was published in 2008. Harry Golombek called it "the first scientific study of the openings in the twentieth century".[1]
^Harry Golombek (editor-in-chief), Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Crown Publishers, 1977, p. 202. ISBN 0-517-53146-1.
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ModernChessOpenings (usually called MCO) is a reference book on chessopenings, first published in 1911 by the British players Richard Clewin Griffith...
Many opening sequences, known as openings, have standard names such as "Sicilian Defense". The Oxford Companion to Chess lists 1,327 named openings and...
openings are not popular with chess players, the standard opening references such as ModernChessOpenings (MCO) and Encyclopaedia of ChessOpenings (ECO)...
The Encyclopaedia of ChessOpenings (ECO) is a reference work describing the state of opening theory in chess, originally published in five volumes from...
written on chessopenings. These include both comprehensive openings encyclopedias such as the Encyclopedia of ChessOpenings and ModernChessOpenings; general...
This is a list of chessopenings, organised by the Encyclopaedia of ChessOpenings (ECO) code classification system. The chessopenings are categorised...
A chessopening book is a book on chessopenings. This is by far the most common type of literature on chess. These books describe many major lines, like...
transpositional possibilities between the two openings. The Encyclopaedia of ChessOpenings (ECO) classifies the Modern Defense as code B06, while codes B07 to...
This is a list of chessopenings that are gambits. The gambits are organized into sections by the parent chessopening, giving the gambit name, ECO code...
choice of opening for White in blitz tournaments where Black has little time to ponder the most accurate defense. The Encyclopaedia of ChessOpenings (ECO)...
DeFirmian (1990). ModernChessOpenings. David McKay. p. 243. ISBN 0-8129-1785-5. Evans, Larry; Walter Korn (1965). ModernChessOpenings. Pitman. p. 182...
The Ponziani Opening is a chessopening that begins with the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 It is one of the oldest chessopenings, having been discussed...
Nick de Firmian concludes in the 15th edition of ModernChessOpenings, however, that the opening leads to equality with best play by both sides. This...
The Modern Benoni is a chessopening that begins with the moves 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6. It is classified under the ECO codes A60–A79. After the initial...
A chessopening theory table or ECO table (Encyclopaedia of ChessOpenings) presents lines of moves, typically (but not always) from the starting position...
list of named opening lines, see List of chessopenings; for a list of chess-related games, see List of chess variants; for a list of terms general to...