Author: Chip Sears
Date: 12:05:32 01/17/02
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On January 17, 2002 at 12:31:38, John Merlino wrote: >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Because it is obsolete and hasn't been used in chess literature in 20+ 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 Thanks for keeping it in the program. It makes the CM software unique and it helps us older players enjoy reading some of the classic texts :-)
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