Non-Descriptive Chess Books

Hey fellas (and ladies),

I was looking through some book PDFs of GM chess games with analysis but many of them have descriptive notation which I have a hard time following because I'm vastly unfamiliar with it (until about a week ago).

I also tried out some of the online descriptive to algebraic converters but they were almost always off on a few moves. Also tried looking up the particular games that the descriptive notation was analyzing but that didn't work out either because many of the explained moves used descriptive notation.

So, are there any analysis books that use algebraic notation instead of descriptive?

C'mon guys. Don't just view it, offer some input.

Um.  You mean actual book books or pdfs of historical books?  You could try Russian publications since they never used descriptive.  Descriptive is easier if you have a chessboard to make the moves on; and better still if there are two of you to double check everything.

Pretty much everything published today is algebraic.

Either pdfs, or actual books will work. I've tried to go through descriptive chess books but some of the notation didn't make sense. Maybe I should just learn to be fluent with it.

Yeah they don't use descriptive anymore but I read somewhere that USCF still allows games to be recorded with it. Anyway descriptive is still useful to know because some of those games could be really useful. It just takes a while to get used to all the number switching.

To get an idea of what's available try searching Amazon for Igor Stohl and his Intructive Modern Chess Masterpieces (an awesome book) and on the book's page you can see where people have bought that book also bought these other books.

The question does bring up an interesting historical point: At what time was the last major chess book published in descriptive notation in the United States?  Because basically, the rest of the world had moved on to algebraic while the US still clung to the outmoded, obsolete method.  Much like the measurement system -- ie, hardly any metric traction in the USA.