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Jun 17, 2015
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#6
Where are them germans when you need them ? It looks like Ber Rosche Schachcober.
Now, if we rewrite it like this: Der Rosche Schachcoder, then perhaps someone aus Deutschland could help.
Schach = Chess. That much ich weise.
Der Kochsche Schachcodex. The x looks like an r so I suppose it's a mistake as coder is not a German word. It just means "Koch's chess codex". Koch seems to have been a theologian in the 19th century who also published chess articles and books. As far as I can see the codex was a collection of games from Greco, Philidor and other players.
http://feefhs.org/guides/German_Gothic.pdf
Don't know if this sort of site helps; sadly I can't read it, and I know little German anyway. I can make out the word 'Schach' in the second word.
Jun 17, 2015
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#11
I think it is supposed to mean "der Kochsche Schachcodex"
der = the
Kochsche: Koch is a name. Kochsche means of Koch / by Koch
Schach = chess
codex = book.
the chessbook by Koch
Jun 17, 2015
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#12
bolzenbert wrote:
Der Kochsche Schachcodex. It just means "Koch's chess codex". Koch seems to have been a theologian in the 19th century who also published chess articles and books.
Thanks a lot
!. That makes sense. I also found "Koch'schen Schachcodex"
"Der Kochfchen Schachcoder"
Coder probably means a codex (a summary of everything in a field), and not a code. (Like morse code.)
So I'd guess it means "the comprehensive book about all things chess-related written by Koch."
I just googled again and it seems to have been a collection of older chess literature, not of master games.
Jun 17, 2015
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#15
Alpenschach wrote:
the chessbook by Koch
That's the sense in context of what I was trying to read. Thanks.
You get a lot of old books written in gothic letters if you google it
https://www.google.dk/search?q=Der+Kochfchen+Schachcoder&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=H_2BVZedNIKMsgGmpYHwCA#q=Der+Kochschen+Schachcoder
http://www.kwabc.org/archive/Praesentationen/Koch_Vortrag.pdf
Here's a presentation on Koch with some pictures.
Jun 17, 2015
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#18
Well, this was from a book published in 1826 by the famous chess player, von Hirsch Silberschmidt. I'm not familiar with any Koch Chess Book.... yet.
Jun 17, 2015
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#19
bolzenbert wrote:
http://www.kwabc.org/archive/Praesentationen/Koch_Vortrag.pdf
Here's a presentation on Koch with some pictures.
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That it. Thanks.
And here is volume 3 of the the book refered to, "Kodex der Schachspielkunst" from 1834. So your sentence is a sort of daily-language referral to it and not the correct title. Must have been a popular read then.
https://books.google.dk/books/about/Kodex_der_Schachspielkunst.html?id=AqJAAAAAcAAJ&redir_esc=y
Can anyone spell this, translate it and explain it to me?