Talk:Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings

Page Title

I just renamed the article from Encyclopedia to Encyclopaedia. According to the publisher's web site, the title contains the extra 'a'. -- Dominus 14:33, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Good call!--JStripes 01:24, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

That is the GB publisher. Prices are in GB pounds. My paper edition has it without the extra "a". Bubba73 (talk), 19:48, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Well, my books are first editions without the "a". Newer printed editions have the "a". Bubba73 (talk), 19:54, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Ever try ordering directly from them? Crazy nuts send you a brown lunch bag wrapped in packing string. It looks like something the unabomber would send. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.111.251.229 (talk) 06:02, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

buy

Do anyone know where I could order/buy these books from? I'd like the books, the printed editions, and I can't find them on any site (for instance, amazon.com and the like) whatsoever. Even on the homepage I can't find an option for ordering printed editions, only the electronic editions or CDs which are far inferior. — DeclinedShadow (talk) 01:51, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't think they are in print anymore. You can find used copies from the places that sell used books and on eBay. Also, www.bookfinder.com will probably find used copies available. Bubba73 (talk), 01:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Still sold in the UK at chess events, various copies on amazon.co.uk as I check now. If you require new then it's also possible to buy them direct from http://www.sahovski.com/products/eco/index.php SunCreator (talk) 14:20, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Importance?

I changed this from High importance to Low importance. My rationale is that I think that Top and High importance articles are ones that are more important for the general reader to read. ECO is important to chess players, but not so important to general readers. The more chess-player oriented an article is, the lower importance as far as Wikipedia is concerned. Bubba73 (talk), 00:22, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

I disagree entirely. ECO is important to most chess players. It's far more likely to be of interest then the multitude of chess player bio's that are rated high. The traffic stats show this is the case. http://stats.grok.se/en/200902/Encyclopaedia%20of%20Chess%20Openings http://stats.grok.se/en/200902/Andrei%20Sokolov http://stats.grok.se/en/200902/Akiba%20Rubinstein etc. So not only is ECO high it's higher then many of the other highs. So mid would be inappropriate. SunCreator (talk) 14:10, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Maybe we could bring this discussion to WP:CHESS to broaden the debate ? SyG (talk) 19:22, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I rated Lucena position, Philidor position and several other articles (mostly articles that I made substantial contributions to) as "Low" importance because I think they are specialized and are very important to chess players but not that important to a general encyclopedia. If this was WikiChess.org, I'd rate them (and ECO) "High". Bubba73 (talk), 15:39, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, actually Lucena and Philidor are both rated Mid importance. I rated Lucena as Mid, someone else rated Philidor as Mid. Bubba73 (talk), 15:42, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

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Credits for sections

The only ECO volume I have is the much criticized 3rd edition of Volume B, which does not credit individual editors for the various subsections, merely listing them on the copyright page. Not sure if we should include all the credits in the article. MaxBrowne2 (talk) 02:33, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

History

For the needs of Chess Informant, Braslav Rabar in 1966 created nomenclature of chess openings that is even today foundation of chess information system. He published it in 1971 in brochure Classification of chess openings. He divided openings into 3 groups: D (ones that start with 1st d4), E (1st e4) i R (miscellaneous; ones that start with other moves: 1st c4; 1st f4; 1st Sf3 etc.) After 1980 nomenclature was expanded to 5 letters (A, B, C, D, E). He was also an editor of ECO. 37.205.108.242 (talk) 17:52, 27 October 2024 (UTC)