Author: Eddie
Date: 13:35:37 09/11/00
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On September 11, 2000 at 16:25:47, Frederic Friedel wrote: >On September 11, 2000 at 11:28:36, Michel Langeveld wrote: > >>Does ChessBase has also features for entering moves with old-English notation? >>Like P-Q4, etc > >No, I don't think so. I don't think anything in the world supports move input in >English descriptive notation. Correction: I believe John Nunn wrote a utility to >scan and translate descriptive notation, since Batsford were reediting old books >in algebraic notation. > >But ChessBase will translate games to description notation. Here's the >Gelfand-Anand game as it would have looked half a century ago: > >Gelfand,B (2681) - Anand,V (2762) [E05] >FIDE World Cup KO Shenyang CHN (2.2), 10.09.2000 > >1.P-Q4 N-KB3 2.P-QB4 P-K3 3.P-KN3 P-Q4 4.N-KB3 B-K2 5.B-N2 0-0 6.0-0 PxP 7.Q-B2 >P-QR3 8.P-QR4 B-Q2 9.QxBP B-B3 10.B-N5 P-QR4 11.N-B3 N-R3 12.BxN BxB 13.P-K4 >N-N5 14.R/B-Q1 P-KN3 15.R/R-B1 R-K1 16.P-Q5 PxP 17.PxP B-Q2 18.N-Q4 R-QB1 >19.N-K4 B-K4 20.N-QB5 P-N3 21.N-B6 BxN 22.PxB PxN 23.RxQ R/BxR 24.R-K1 B-Q5 >25.RxR+ RxR 26.Q-N5 K-N2 27.QxRP R-K7 28.QxP/7 RxBP 29.K-R1 N-Q6 30.Q-Q8 >[30.B-Q5 N-K4 Threat Ng4 31.Q-B8 R-B8+ 32.K-N2 R-B7+ 33.K-R3 (33.K-N1 R-B6+=) >33...P-R4 Threat again Ng4 34.P-B7 N-N5 35.B-N2 (35.QxN PxQ+ 36.KxP P-B4+ >37.K-R3 P-N4 38.B-B3 P-N5+ 39.BxP PxB+ 40.KxP R-B1) 35...RxP Threatens Nxf2 and >mate 36.QxN PxQ+ 37.KxP RxB 38.(Q) RxRP and probably a draw.] 30...R-B7 31.B-B1 >N-B7+ 32.K-N2 N-N5+ 33.K-B3 N-K4+ 34.K-K4 NxP 35.Q-B7 N-N5 36.P-N4 R-B7 37.B-N5 >P-N4 38.P-R5 ½-½ Very good Freddy! :)) I have always written my games in descriptive notation. Go Freddy go! I like the sound of this .... :))
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