Modern Chess Openings (usually called MCO) is an important reference book on the chess openings, first published in 1911 by the British players Richard Clewin Griffith (1872–1955) and John Herbert White (1880–1920). Harry Golombek called it "the first scientific study of the openings in the twentieth century".
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