Is there an algebraic annotation version for these books? - Chess Forums

Jul 27, 2019

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#1

Hi,

I am studying Capablanca, but his book "My Chess Career" is written using the Descriptive annotation, which I don't prefer.

Is there an algebraic version of it?

The same question applies to the book "The Immortal Games of Capablanca"

Thanks for helping!

notmtwain

Jul 27, 2019

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#2

William_Roma wrote:

Hi,

I am studying Capablanca, but his book "My Chess Career" is written using the Descriptive annotation, which I don't prefer.

Is there an algebraic version of it?

The same question applies to the book "The Immortal Games of Capablanca"

Thanks for helping!

Yes.

See: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/capablanca.html

William_Roma

Jul 27, 2019

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#3

Thanks but that link is about history, specially Chess Fundamental book. I am asking about My Chess Career and "The Immortal Games of Capablanca"

notmtwain wrote:

William_Roma wrote:

Hi,

I am studying Capablanca, but his book "My Chess Career" is written using the Descriptive annotation, which I don't prefer.

Is there an algebraic version of it?

The same question applies to the book "The Immortal Games of Capablanca"

Thanks for helping!

Yes.

See: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/capablanca.html

notmtwain

Jul 27, 2019

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William_Roma wrote:

Thanks but that link is about history, specially Chess Fundamental book. I am asking about My Chess Career and "The Immortal Games of Capablanca"

notmtwain wrote:

William_Roma wrote:

Hi,

I am studying Capablanca, but his book "My Chess Career" is written using the Descriptive annotation, which I don't prefer.

Is there an algebraic version of it?

The same question applies to the book "The Immortal Games of Capablanca"

Thanks for helping!

Yes.

See: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/capablanca.html

No, he actually reviews a 1994 algebraic version of "My Chess Career". And he savages Reinfeld's "Immortal Games" while noting that no one had attempted an algebraic reprint.

I'd cut and paste it for you but Winter really gets upset.

I guess I'd take it as a warning about getting what you ask for.

Perhaps you should spend the five minutes to learn descriptive notation and work with the public domain originals.

William_Roma

Jul 27, 2019

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notmtwain wrote:

William_Roma wrote:

Thanks but that link is about history, specially Chess Fundamental book. I am asking about My Chess Career and "The Immortal Games of Capablanca"

notmtwain wrote:

William_Roma wrote:

Hi,

I am studying Capablanca, but his book "My Chess Career" is written using the Descriptive annotation, which I don't prefer.

Is there an algebraic version of it?

The same question applies to the book "The Immortal Games of Capablanca"

Thanks for helping!

Yes.

See: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/capablanca.html

No, he actually reviews a 1994 algebraic version of "My Chess Career". And he savages Reinfeld's "Immortal Games" while noting that no one had attempted an algebraic reprint.

I'd cut and paste it for you but Winter really gets upset.

I guess I'd take as a warning about getting what you ask for.

Perhaps you should spend the five minutes to learn descriptive notation and work with the public domain originals.

Thank you, I think I found the first one here

https://www.amazon.de/Jose-Raul-Capablanca-Chess-Career/dp/0964298694/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1564242170&refinements=p_27%3ALaird+Lyndon&s=books-intl-de&sr=1-1&text=Laird+Lyndon#customerReviews

DrChesspain

Jul 27, 2019

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#6

As others have said, there are many top quality books which were written in DN, and any books published before 1923 are now in the public domain, if you don't mind reading e-books.

Books in DN written after 1923 are still under copyright protection, but some of these books may be worth a read even if they are only available in DN.

Finally, descriptive notation isn't that difficult to learn, as evidenced by the gazillion beginner's chess books published before the 1980s

m_connors

Jul 27, 2019

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#7

I don't know the exact answer to your question; however, I can say that I have seen older books reprinted with the "newer" notation format. You may be able to find an updated version from Amazon. I found an online site about two years ago for a different book, but I don't recall the URL.

I realize this may be of limited value, but hopefully it helps.