On Oct 4, 5:53 pm, "Wijnand Engelkes" wrote:
The series "Weltgeschichte des Schachs" had collections of 300-500 games of
famous players, with a diagram every 5 moves and a little leaflet at the
back of the book with comments.
You can use software to create your own books with a diagram every 5th move.
I used SCID to do this.
In a .PGN file I changed every move number 6. 11. 16. etcetera
to $201 6. $201 11. $201 16. etcetera
by a search and replace macro.
$201 means "print a diagram" to SCID.

Wijnand.

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On 4 okt, 15:21, Guy Macon http://www.guymacon.com/ wrote:
Anders Thulin wrote:

David Richerby wrote:

And throughout the English-speaking world. Did other languages have
equivalent descriptive notations?

There are/were both French and Spanish descriptive notation
-- I expect there's Portuguese and probably Italian as well.

...and some books used small pictures of the pieces.

Well, it's true that most books use diagrams very scarcely. I would be
happier too if i saw a diagram every 5 or so moves. that way i don't
need a board and can just make the moves in my head. but after 5 or so
moves that tend to become too difficult for me, so a board would be
nice in the books.

I think every book should include a pgn disk or at least a site to
download them. The pgn files wouldn't be of much use without the
text. It would seem to add value to the book.

Who has not sit at the computer and made pgn games from text?