Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 13:57:56 01/17/02
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On January 17, 2002 at 16:49:11, Marc van Hal wrote: >But the only reason why you could suport it is more because otherwise nobody >Knows how to write or read it anymore >I have the enceclopidia of chess by Harry Golombek publisher Batsford which is >only written in this way > >But Capablanca used normal notation in his books which where written much >earlier > >I believe this way of notation only was used in England >Just tell me when I am mistaken. > >Regards Marc van Hal I know that descriptive notation was widely used in the USA as well. In fact, it was referred to as "normal", and what you now call normal was was the strange "algebraic" notation to many. I played in many chess tournaments in the USA in the mid-1970s and descriptive notation was much more common than algebraic notation at that time. I switched to algebraic around 1977. Most tournament chess players born in the USA before 1960 started with descriptive notation (and a few still use it!). Nearly all chess books authored in the USA before 1977 or so used descriptive notation. In their 1972 match, Fischer used descriptive notation and Spassky used algebraic.
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