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Subject: Re: Off Topic: The most error free chess book ever written?

Author: martin fierz

Date: 04:42:59 09/20/03

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On September 19, 2003 at 20:34:29, Dana Turnmire wrote:

>I have been compiling an opening book for Genius 7 from Nunn's Chess Openings
>and have entered more than 8,000 moves over many pages.  I have yet to find a
>single misprint.  Compare this to Modern Chess Openings 14 which I used to have.
> Without exaggerating I would find a typo of some kind on just about every other
>page or so. I have had other opening manuals down through the years and every
>one of them had typos.  I guess what amazes me is the attention to detail that
>has been put in NCO as I doubt I have ever seen any other technical book of
>approximate size that was so error free.  Maybe it's because GM Nunn used a team
>of specialists instead of trying to do the entire work himself.  I'm not trying
>to pick on MCO 14 but just contrasting the difference.

at the swiss chess championship i talked with joe gallagher, one of the authors
of NCO. he said that they planned a 2nd edition after about 5 years or so, which
would be now, but that they probably won't do it. the reason: not enough sales,
and he also said he never worked as hard on a chess book as on NCO.
i quite agree, it's a fantastic book. too bad that no successor is planned :-(

cheers
  martin



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