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Hello
I am teaching my daughter chess who is about 1000. She is 8 and quite
bright. She can use some help from openings books but the only book I ever
looked at over 25 years ago was MCO.
I am quite out of touch with chess at this point so I would love some advice
on nice openings and endgame books, which are easy read and offer a lot of
explanation.
Thanks in advance.
Hi Charu,
MCO is still being printed with a new edition recently released (!).
However, the times have changed and here's the two opening books I highly recommend. They not only give different variations, but most importantly - the ideas and explanations of typical strategies, including how to handle the middlegame positions that arise.
http://www.chessmastery.com/chess-opening-ideas.html
Regards,
Len
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Len Molden
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