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Standard Chess Openings (Paperback)

by Eric Schiller (Author)

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Paperback: 768 pages
Publisher: Cardoza Publishing,U.S.; 2nd Revised edition edition (Sep 2002)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1580420486
ISBN-13: 978-1580420488
Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 19.2 x 5 cm

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The new definitive standard on opening play, this comprehensive guide covers every important chess opening and variation ever played and currently in vogue. It includes more than three thousand opening strategies! Differing from books that rely exclusively on bare notation, SCO features substantial discussion and analysis on each opening so that you understand the key opening concepts. More than 250 completely annotated games (including a game representative of each major opening). One thousand diagrams! For modern players, this is the standard reference book necessary for competitive play. This is the definitive book on all major chess openings and a must-buy for every serious chess player. More than 3,000 opening strategies!

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I finished writing this monster book of over 800 pages earlier this month (May 97), and it is in production now. All standard openings are discussed and illustrated with complete games. The book will appeal to those new to chess openings and experienced players looking for some new strategies. Unlike most one-volume encyclopedias, this book concentrates more on discussion of ideas than on tabulating modern fashion. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting entry into the opening tome market, 24 Aug 1998

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This review is from: Standard Chess Openings (Chess books) (Paperback)

For those hoping that this new book will fill the void left by the conspicuous delay of BCO3 and MCO14, expect disappointment. For those fans of venerable opening primers like I.A. Horowitz' How to Win in the Chess Openings, Reuben Fine's Ideas Behind the Chess Openings and Ludek Pachman's The Opening Game in Chess, you have found an up-to-date successor. SCO is a huge compendium of benchmark games illustrating typical ("standard"!) themes for Black and White in each of the conventional openings. This is a good single-volume reference for players that are trying to find out what is supposed to happen after the first 10-15 moves have been played. This is not a reference work for postal players or studious over-the-board players looking for the latest theory in multiple lines of an opening. Consider SCO an adjunct to books like BCO2/MCO13 that are long on variations but short on explanations. Amazon's discounted price represents an excellent value -- 800 pages for $20 comes out to 2 1/2 cents per page, an uncommon value in chess books today. My only major criticism is that the text gets pretty crowded and a little difficult to follow at times. After a series of (,{;[,]:}>) etc., it is easy to lose one's place. Though I have not always been a fan of Schiller's books, this one is a good value and one of his stronger efforts.

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3.0 out of 5 stars not the first and not the last book you should think off, 7 Jan 1999

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After reading it almost from the begining to end, I have to say something to balance the stars average on the top of this page. It is a huge work of Mr. Shiller, undoubtelly, but it is the kind of book you should think off just when you are prone to pick openings to make a repertory. Basically the book does not cover variations, it covers a wide variety of opening ideas. Besides, sometimes the games given are quite weird examples of the opening application. So, after you have played some openings and you think its time to make some serious decisions about repertory, pick this one before you get some deep and complicated ones and you should have some insights that would make you feel what openings "fits" you. Not considering the above problems, its a fine book and I don't regret to have it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Performs admirably, 26 Sep 1998

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Schiller does an excellent job at listing the common and (mostly) time-tested openings and giving a brief commentary and analysis. He doesn't list many variations for all but a few games but if he had the volume would be immense and thus more expensive. I should point out that this probably shouldn't be your first book on chess openings. If you're a beginner moving on from the basics and looking for something to increase your arsenal of openings one of Schiller's books that concentrate on Black or White's openings would offer more direction. An Intermediate player might look to the MCO. This would make an excellent second chess book, however.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A pretty good book.
I'm an average player who wanted to work on my opening strategy. This not only helped with that, but my game as a whole has jumped up a couple hundred points. Read more

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