Chess-News Poll: Do We Need Books on Chess Openings Nowadays?

The supertournament will start in several days in Stavanger. Magnus Carlsen along with some other strongest GMs will compete for the prize. Here's the question we are asking: 

One day before the Candidates tournament will start in London we decided to ask you the following:

Today Garry Kasparov and Kirsan Ilyumzhinov announced they will run for FIDE presidency in 2014. Although our readers don't have the right to vote officially, we ask you to share your opinion by voting in our poll:

It's time to know what Chess-News readers think:

The poll is also available on the home page.

Take a thorough look at the participants' list of Tata Steel Group A which starts in several days and answer our poll:

We're interested in your opinion regarding Kirsan Ilyumzhinov's decision to set up The World Chess Party.

It's been a while that there's a discussion if Chess960 or Fischer chess is a good alternative to the classical chess. Moscow has recently hosted a two-day round-robin rapid event in Fischer chess. Soon we are planning to invite the participants of the tournament to our radio, so we can know their impressions from the competition. Here we offer you to express your opinion on the topic.   

More than 500 readers have answered our poll in which we were asking if books on chess openings are still needed today. More than 80% of the visitors gave an affirmative answer.