Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 12:42:57 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. It's because it was generated from data stored electronically. Nunn comments in the preface that he wrote some custom software himself to do it. Dave
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