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POLL: Do you like to use MCO'S or online Data bases?
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Apr 6, 2013
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Well, I have an MCO which I use. I don't have access to a database. If I had a database, I'd use it over my MCO. So, take your pick on that one.
Databases to follow variations, Fundamental Chess Openings and Chess Opening Essentials to understand why the moves are played. There are free databases on the web. I use 365chess.com and pony up an extra $10 a year for its' "premium" features.
Only chess.com at the moment, no need for more. Occasionally, ChessBase.
Are there no databases that include explanation in annotations?
MCOs.
i never used them but shouldnt you compare chess informant or new in chess yearbook to databases??
I try both, but they never seem to have the moves my opponent plays. So then I switch to blueemu's method.
I tried to use NCO in the 90s, it's similar to MCO. nowadays that kind of book is really outdated.
Databases, books based on explanation and opening-specific books are better.
tfulk wrote:
Well, I have an MCO which I use. I don't have access to a database. If I had a database, I'd use it over my MCO. So, take your pick on that one.
i guess you like databases better mco:1 data:1 TIE
mco:2 data:3
mco;3 data:3
moc:4 data:5
oh 1 point is added to both sides for "both".
Um, what's an MCO? I use ChessBase databases to keep all of my annotated losses in, but I've never heard of an MCO. Is it something that could help me? Thanks!
Modern Chess Openings, a veritable godsend to players in the 50's and 60's as it lists variation after variation of the openings, alas without explanation. It's still used by a few old timers (it is a portable database after all) and those who don't know that it has been superceded by explanatory opening books and, of course, databases.
@Slimreaper, who asked what MCO is.
MCO = the Modern Chess Openings book
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Chess_Openings
Personally, I like and have used FCO = Fundamental Chess Openings which is a lot more explanatory/descriptive, but much less encyclopedic.
http://www.amazon.com/FCO-Fundamental-Paul-Van-Sterren/dp/1906454132
SlimReaper99 wrote:
Um, what's an MCO? I use ChessBase databases to keep all of my annotated losses in, but I've never heard of an MCO. Is it something that could help me? Thanks!
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=MCO+chess
Fundamental Chess Openings is very good too!
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