Here's the whole thing as a pdf. Still not sure what it is, but there you go.
www.chesskids.com/grownups/openings.pdf
Please name that chess book !
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Wow thank you very much Tupelo !
That's a nice basic chess opening encyclopedia... with the horrible flaw of long algebraic notation! Ugh, what an eyesore. And the opening lines are pretty short and sketchy. If you really like it, print that .pdf link... but if you have money to spend on a basic chess opening encyclopedia written for the intelligent improving player, I recommend FCO (Fundamental Chess Openings)
Thanx JG27Pyth, I found a cheap copy of FCO on amazon at 22$ including shipping 
. It looks like THE book to have for openings.
studur wrote:
Thanx JG27Pyth, I found a cheap copy of FCO on amazon at 22$ including shipping . It looks like THE book to have for openings.
I don't think there's a "The" book for openings... just recently there have been three really great works on the opening for improving players:
FCO (which at a mere 480 oversized pages is by far the most compact reference of the bunch)
Watson's Mastering the Chess Openings three volume .
New in Chess's (Komarov Djuric & Pantaleoni) Chess Opening Essentials 4 volumes
Either Watson or the NIC bunch will run you close to 100 bucks for the full set. FCO $22 -- I think you made a good choice.
Well, thank you for your comments. As a total newbie, I just restarted playing and learning chess 3 months ago. I read books that are not too deep in the theory because I am still at the beginning and you can get lost in the details. I need books that cover the base and explains the 'why' instead of dumping hundreds of their favorite games. That is why I liked the opening pdf of chesskids.com because it explains the main idea of specific openings and how to stick to the spirit of the chosen opening. Considering I dont have the time and the money to buy all the books, I have to stay focused on improving one thing at a time. That is why I needed a general reference book aimed at a general audience. I can go to a specific chapter and start from there. I also like the everyman chess collection. They seem to target an intermediate level of players.
studur wrote:
Well, thank you for your comments. As a total newbie, I just restarted playing and learning chess 3 months ago. I read books that are not too deep in the theory because I am still at the beginning and you can get lost in the details. I need books that cover the base and explains the 'why' instead of dumping hundreds of their favorite games. That is why I liked the opening pdf of chesskids.com because it explains the main idea of specific openings and how to stick to the spirit of the chosen opening. Considering I dont have the time and the money to buy all the books, I have to stay focused on improving one thing at a time. That is why I needed a general reference book aimed at a general audience. I can go to a specific chapter and start from there. I also like the everyman chess collection. They seem to target an intermediate level of players.
I couldn't disagree more with Capa_Kaspa in post #7. I don't think there's anything less useful to you right now than a monograph on the English opening, or a multivolume work on Anand's repertoire... it's sort of bizarre to even suggest it.
Don't get too obsessed with mastering 'one thing at a time' -- chess is a supremely logical game --but it's really quite odd how chess improvement rarely comes in a linear logical predictable straightforward way. The process is dauntingly holistic at times. Find things you enjoy studying, and ways of studying you enjoy and improvement will take care of itself. Don't be afraid to graze around on anything you find interesting. Things connect in ways you don't expect. The thing that has helped my opening play more than anything, by far: is studying the middlegame!
I have a PhD in procratination, so I study what fires me up. I can do tactics for a week, then study my chess book for a couple days, then use Peshka for a little. When I get bored on one thing I move to another one. This way, I keep improving in a parallel manner and I cover more material this way. The books that helped me the most are How to beat Dad at chess and tactics for kids. They present checkmate patterns and tactical ideas that helped me a lot to improve on the tactics trainer (on chess.com) I found the latest to be a wonderful tool to improve the intuition and the rapid recognizing of tactical and checkmate patterns. In fall, I will subscribe to my local chess club to work on my OTB skills. So far, I play exclusively using the online correspondance chess on chess.com. I am an addict of the analyze function that help me work my moves. But for OTB games, I have to work my visualization in order to improve for this kind of chess. I am 33 years old and my brain is not as snappy as a young kid so it takes me more time to figure out a plan. Anyway, I enjoy playing on this website so much, it gives me all the motivation to go forward.
thank you all for your friendly comments
Hi, I have photocopies of page 1 and 3 of a chess book I cant remember the name. Can you give me the title please. I would like to buy a hard copy.
thank you