There is no consistency over when verbal evaluations and when symbols should be used. Tables also don't have evaluations in the end of each line, so you have to find a footnote to learn who is better in the end. Layout - using columns versus rows in the tables is very unusual, since virtually all other known Opening Encyclopedias use rows, this one is very hard to read. Everything that the NCO (Nunn's Chess Openings) has done brilliantly - seems to have gone wrong in this volume: So I picked up "Modern Chess Openings - 15" by Nick de Firmian in the library with great excitement but was quite disappointed. In the age of computers being used for nearly all opening preparation, are opening books, especially opening encyclopedias, still useful? In the end - all they contain is just moves that can be found in databases anyway? I think it is still useful to have one book that gives a high level picture of all major openings, shows what the main lines are, and can help to do a sanity check to make sure I do not have any major gaps in my repertoire.
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