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 MCO or NCO?
What books are available on the market? Which ones do you have? Which ones do you recommend?
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jcasazza
12-Jul-08, 04:48
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I have heard many opinions as to which is better. I personally think that each has their individual strong points. For accuracy I like Nunn better. For better coverage of more of the major openings I like MCO better. Get both and have the best of two worlds.
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The more the merrier!
I employ the Small ECO, MCO-14 and now the "Starting Out" series. I do not have Nunn's, but might look into. Also, I believe NIC has great in-depth reviews of almost any opening reportoire. I am studying the Najdorf and the NIC has some great details well past typical opening reviews. The MCO-14 has very good details up until the 5th thru 8th moves, but then you must really study to see why certain following moves are made, or not made, after you get into the columns. Recently, in one of my tournaments, my opponent had made a move (Qb6) and it was not noted anywhere. I felt sure I could see through a way to take advantage of this errancy, but to no avail.
The Starting Out series not only looks at the openings, but offers several games to see what your middle game and endgame goals might be. Great resource to help visualize some real plans after the 12th moves verses instinctive play!
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Everyman Chess has excellent books, I use the Starting Out series, which is meant for 1600-1800, and then Everyman has follow-up books that go in more detail into many lines, which I'd think are probably useful for players 1800-2100. But for someone with your rating, probably the only thing that will be useful would be the complete ECO (the CD version is not terribly expensive).
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MCO 15 is now out. It also has bigger print than NCO making it easier to read.
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M.C.O.-15
Yes, I now have this 15th version (thanks to Slavia). Nunn's NCO as well.
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One thing, I noticed about MCO 15 is it just doesn't stay together. Very quickly the binding broke down and I have many loose pages. This never happened with NCO.
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tactical_abyss
08-Jun-09, 14:09
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I have hard cover versions of MCO-12,13 and 14,no binding problems there!MCO-12 is written in descriptive,so that may be a collectors item one day.
I have MCO 15 as well which is an improvement over MCO-14 but I would say that the "bulk" of most of MCO-15 is simply copied from MCO-14.In MCO-15 there are additional sections like in the Sicilian covering more territory about the opening.But with other openings version 15 is mostly copied over from version 14 including the written introductions to each opening.
Still, I consider all the MCO series my favorite,even with many typographical errors that can be found in every version.
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