Modern Chess Openings, or the chess player’s Bible, published as its first edition, edited by R.C. Griffith (1872-1955), in 1911. Other editions were issued in 1913, 1916, 1920, 1925, 1932, 1939 (Fine), 1946, 1957, 1965 (Evans), 1972 and the twelfth in 1982.
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Quotes of the Day
Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess.
Irving Chernev
It’s always better to sacrifice your opponent’s men
Savielly Tartakower
Magnus is playing fantastic and I play like I always play, pretty badly
Anish Giri 2017
In the past twenty years Kramnik has played a few thousand games, and if you show me a position from one of them, in 90 percent of the time I will be able to tell you which game it is from.
Vishy Anand 2008
People knew about 110 years of chess history. Nowadays, nobody is able to tell you the name of the world champion of 2000.
Anatoly Karpov 2005