Classic chess books that are still only available in Descriptive Notation

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ed1975

Making a list of classic chess books that are still only available in English Descriptive Notation. I'll kick things off. Please feel free to add your own thoughts, thanks.

 

500 Master Games of Chess (Tartakower/DuMont)

The Immortal Games of Capablanca (Reinfeld)

Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur (Euwe/Meiden)

Yokahu

Pawn Power by Kmoch

Modern Chess Strategy by Pachman

kindaspongey

"I just received the American Chess Promotions edition of 'Pawn Power In Chess' by Hans Kmoch, and it is in fact in Algebraic notation. (Search on the ISBN number- i.e., 'ISBN 0939298791')." - RussBell (March 16, 2017)

kindaspongey

How to Open a Chess Game by a bunch of GMs

Various Edward Lasker books

Yokahu
kindaspongey wrote:

"I just received the American Chess Promotions edition of 'Pawn Power In Chess' by Hans Kmoch, and it is in fact in Algebraic notation. (Search on the ISBN number- i.e., 'ISBN 0939298791')." - RussBell (March 16, 2017)

That version was poorly done and out of print.

ed1975

How to Open a Chess Game by Evans et al.

BarronBrowne

my guess is that Karklin's book on the 1964 Russian interzonal has never come across into algebraic. it's an extraordinary book. kind of a Chess Praxis of the second half of the twentieth century.

ElBrappo

The algebraic version of Fischer's " 60 Best Games" is so poor that I would put it on the list.

spenser9870

It's a little outdated now but from the 60's through the 80's I loved Chess Openings: Theory and Practice by I. A. Horowitz. I actually used it well into the 90's until I finally got used to algebraic notation because I was so used to descriptive notation. Being like a new foreign language to me, algebraic notation took some time to eventually understand and comprehend as well as I had learned with descriptive.

ed1975

I still have trouble visualising what comes after file e - despite (obviously) - knowing the alphabet perfectly. It's like I have some block in my brain. I need coordinates on my boards.

I grew up with descriptive notation.

DrChesspain

The Second Piatagorsky Cup, where every game is annotated by one or both participants.

BarronBrowne
kindaspongey wrote:

How to Open a Chess Game by a bunch of GMs

Various Edward Lasker books

 

I actually have the library version of that sitting on the dining room table at the moment. It used to be my copy, but I donated it. Of course, once I donated it, I decided I really should have kept it!