Author: John Merlino
Date: 09:31:38 01/17/02
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On January 17, 2002 at 12:02:59, Chip Sears wrote: >On January 17, 2002 at 10:31:03, Robert Hyatt 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 >> >> >>Because it is obsolete and hasn't been used in chess literature in 20+ >>years? > >Yes - that is my point. There is still a lot of old great literature out there. > How hard would it be to add it? Your point is exactly why we still support Descriptive. Personally, I can't use it; it's way too confusing and there probably is a good reason that nobody is writing chess books with it anymore. However, the older books still deserve to be read, and having a program that can understand Descriptive is very useful. jm
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