Practical Chess Openings is a basic openings book covering all the major openings, in alphabetical order.
At the beginning of each section is a general description of the opening and its history, including the names of famous players who played it.
The opening lines are in Descriptive Notation and are arranged in columns from the most popular to the least popular.
Nowadays chess grandmasters do not study opening books.
Instead they work with computer databases with millions of games in them, .
