Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

opening book

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.82 in modern English

Syllables
open-ing -book
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A book describing chess openings or giving general opening advice.

noun

A database of openings given to a chess engine to play, either to improve the strength of the engine, to make the engine more interesting to play against, or to create a diversity of games in a chess engine tournament.

Inflected Forms

opening books (plural)

Questions

What does opening book mean?
A book describing chess openings or giving general opening advice.

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