International Master Elliott Winslow and National Master Stephan BrandweinĬontributed the long chapter on the Queen's Gambit Declined and most of the work on the romantic-era double king pawn openings (The King's Gambit, Giuoco Piano, Four Knights' Defense, Philidor's Defense, Bishop's Opening, etc.).Ĭontributed the English Opening, his specialty. The Chess Director of San Francisco's Mechanic's Institute contributed the Accelerated Dragon and coauthored the Slav and Semi-Slav chapter with de Firmian. John wrote the chapters on the Benko Gambit, the Bogo-Indian Defense, the Griinfeld Defense, and the King's Indian Defense. I last teamed up with John in preparing Deep Blue's openings for its successful match against Kasparov, and was very pleased he was able to contribute the sections on the Indian Defenses in which he specializes. Still there was much more that needed to be done and I wish to gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the following people. Modern Chess Openings, 14 ed., was an enormous task to complete, consuming twenty months of long hours by your author. Random House website address: Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 98765432 Fourteenth Edition Portions of this work were previously published, in different form, in Modern Chess Openings, 13th Edition, by Nick de Firmian and Walter Korn, published by David McKay Company, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1990. Published in the United States by David McKay Company, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. All rights reserved under Internationa! and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.

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