51 sometimes i get an old chess book and then i start reading it and realise it's not in algebraic notation so now i'm scared to get old books xD
You know, I was once seriously going to try and make a project out of creating a freely redistributable updated ebook edition of Philidor in modern English and algebraic notation
The only edition in English I'm aware of has this kind of super draw-out prose notation.
The image is from Francis Beale’s 1656 collection of Greco’s games. They differ substantially from those you’ll find in databases. However, I created a database that has all of Beale’s collection. Spent a lot of time reading this notation. I did switch colors when Black moves first, as in the example of Fool’s Mate in the image.
BTW, Fool’s Mate and Scholar’s Mate, though in the book, are not credited to Greco. Beale took them from a book by Arthur Saul published about 40 years earlier—1614. There is a copy online that you can read.
Excellent. Thanks for the info and contribution.
I don’t believe that anyone under 1800 would be ill-served playing Morphy’s openings.
Given that one is going to study GM games or openings or both -
then Morphy - why not?
And strong players in the forum seem to be saying that here.
Maybe Morphy's games are so good for this - that return on investment greatly improves!
The site's been very glitchy the last couple of days though.
Morphy's famous 'Opera' game is here on chess.com but I can't get it to post here.