Many thanks - it's been a while since I was last in St.Andrews!
Now trying to find the free version of chessbase light online - looks like they now charge for download?
Descriptive notation on computer?
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Mar 17, 2017
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This is a few years ago. Anything currently available, including paid? Also, are there *any* Computer databases, with a section for Descriptive Notation?
I'm thinking something, along the lines of Project Gutenberg, digitally entering games, from old chess books. I'm not looking for "Computer Analysis" (algebraic, of course), but just records of older games, where people entered them, as in the book, rather than some of the Clumsy translation attempts I've seen.
O.k. First post by complete newbie! As an impecunious beginner I have acquired a number of beginners' chess books from second-hand book shops. These are useful, great fun, nostalgic, etc., but of course use the old Descriptive (English) notation.
I am trying to follow the universal advice to beginners to play through the games recorded in these classic tomes. This is easy enough when I have access to a physical chess set and board... but I wondered if there was a computer analysis program out there where one could switch the notation system from the modern Algebraic back to the old Descriptive and so play these games through on screen on a board using descriptive notation?
I'm guessing I'm not the first person to come across the problem of trying to play through a published game recorded in Descriptive notion on computer, and I wondered if anyone knew of an online computer chess program that worked in both algebraic and descriptive?
Many thanks!