The book seeks to give the reader a clear and concise presentation of whichever chess opening he (she) chooses, using the simple algebraic chess notation. Modern Chess Openings (MCO) has been the standard English language work on chess openings for almost a century, each new edition presenting the latest strategies. Nick de Firmian Current US Chess Champion August 1999
Special thanks to David Stanford Burr, who diligently reviewed the typeset pages. Many thanks to Random House editors Mark Gottlieb and Stanley Newman and production manager Eli Hausknecht, who took this mass of material and produced a finished book. He also contributed historical information and researched chess games.Ĭollected and organized more than a million games in creating the database I used in the production of MCO-14. Graham HillyardĮnsured a high technical standard by doing most of the arduous job of proofreading and checking transliteration. Leverett explored with a year of painstaking care.Īlthough I edited and checked the contributions to conform to the rest of the book, the reader may still note a small difference in the style of these sections. This long chapter covers many systems that Dr. International Master Elliott Winslow and National Master Stephan BrandweinĬontributed the long chapter on the Queen's Gambit Declined and most of the work on the romantic-era double king pawn openings (The King's Gambit, Giuoco Piano, Four Knights' Defense, Philidor's Defense, Bishop's Opening, etc.).Ĭontributed the English Opening, his specialty. The Chess Director of San Francisco's Mechanic's Institute contributed the Accelerated Dragon and coauthored the Slav and Semi-Slav chapter with de Firmian. John wrote the chapters on the Benko Gambit, the Bogo-Indian Defense, the Griinfeld Defense, and the King's Indian Defense. I last teamed up with John in preparing Deep Blue's openings for its successful match against Kasparov, and was very pleased he was able to contribute the sections on the Indian Defenses in which he specializes. Still there was much more that needed to be done and I wish to gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the following people. Modern Chess Openings, 14 ed., was an enormous task to complete, consuming twenty months of long hours by your author. Random House website address: Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 98765432 Fourteenth Edition Portions of this work were previously published, in different form, in Modern Chess Openings, 13th Edition, by Nick de Firmian and Walter Korn, published by David McKay Company, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1990. Published in the United States by David McKay Company, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God.All rights reserved under Internationa! and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race perished in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.Īlta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. United Planets Cruiser C57D, now more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of the great main-sequence star Altair. And so, at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space. Almost at once there followed the discovery of hyperdrive through which the speed of light was first obtained and later greatly surpassed. By 2200 A.D., they had reached the other planets of our solar system. In the final decade of the 21st Century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon.
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