Chess book date 1866

Submitted by waleschess on Mon, 03/02/2009 at 3:53pm.

Hi This is my first article,

I had a chess book given to me "THE CHESS PLAYER'S handbook by Howard Staunton dated 1866my problem is that the Chess move ar in old english =

1.P.toKs4th 1.P.to Ks 4th

2.K's Kt to Bs 3rd 2. Q's Kt to B's3rd

do any one know of a chess progrham that I can use to translate into monden moves

thanks Waleschess

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by pbocog - 10 months ago
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sent me a soft copy ofthe book?

thsn can look more close ley?

thanks cris

by pbocog - 11 months ago
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ithink thre are at least two boards discribt here

one straightand one ortodox

if q1 is queen withe

dan qr4 is also withe queen

qr4 is ortodox

think this about it ?

by pbocog - 11 months ago
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there are two bords availbel in one

one is straight forwart the otherone is in ortodox

must be ortodox nr2 of the bords it means the brod is spined a kwarterany way you play it gives more opions to play iknow because i play ortodox

by pbocog - 11 months ago
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i`m not formilere with sush old docments

but ill try

thanks for sharing!

by BillyIdle - 21 months ago
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P.to Ks 4th seems pretty straight forward to me.

1 Pawn to King 4 OR 1 P-k4

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1 P-k4 P-k4

2 KN-b3 QN-b3

that is pretty normal English notation.

You just need to learn any english notation.

I read English descriptive notation and algebraic notation.

Nobody translates this for you. You might find Stauton's book in algebraic notation, but not in Glamorgan. You should try Powell's books online to see if one exists. You can find most any beginners classic chess book in English notation. The first page or two are devoted to showing the reader how to use it. For example Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess.

by James1965 - 2 years ago
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Good day !! can you send me softcopy of the book? I will appreciate it verey much thank you.

by kco - 2 years ago
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yes is Nf6

also here the link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_chess_notation

by matewithme - 2 years ago
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You need to use a special piece of hardware called the human brain. It's not "olde english" it's descriptive notation. You might try learning how to read descriptive notation, which is what Staunton is using there. I'll help you out to start.

"P. to Ks4th" reads "Pawn to the King's 4th square." Move the King's pawn to the 4th rank. In algebraic, that's "e4". Now, when you're making black's moves, you have to count ranks the opposite as white- so black's 1st rank would be white's 8th, black's 2nd would be white's 7th, and so on. So for "P. to Ks4th", you move it as if it were "e5".

"K's Kt to Bs 3rd" reads "King's knight to Bishop's third square" meaning the knight on the kingside moves to the third square on the bishop's file. Guess what that is in algebraic? Nf3. Then black moves "Q's Kt to Bs 3rd" reads "Queen's knight to Bishop's 3rd square." Care to guess what that would be in algebraic?

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