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Subject: Re: Why Chessmaster series the only program that has Descriptive Notation?

Author: Chip Sears

Date: 09:01:52 01/17/02

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On January 17, 2002 at 11:57:04, Tapio Huuhka wrote:

>On January 17, 2002 at 10:00:51, Chip Sears wrote:
>
>>One of the reason I will always lean towards the Chessmaster programs is that
>>this program is the only one I have seen that has descriptive notation.  I am a
>>collector of OLD chess books and this was the primary notation.  It makes it
>>much easier to read and study these classic books if I maintain the original
>>notation.  Does anyone know why other programs (especially the Chessbase GUI)
>>does not offer this option?
>>
>>thanks
>
>Chessbase 7 knows descriptive, but loading engines (fritz, junior) crash it --
>surprisingly Crafty seems to cope with it. How are things with CB8?
>
>Tapio

Thanks, I did not know that. I have Fritz 6 and could not find it on that. Maybe
I should invest in the Chessbase program itself.



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