I don't need the book if i at all qualify, the game isn't great and i hope the notation is correct, on top of that i live in belgium, just wanted to thank for the blog. Bought "art of checkmate" on your recommendation and the descriptive notation is really easy to get into and i imagine it has improved my game already having read the first 3 chapters! It will give me enough to study for the rest of my life i'm sure 🙂
The winner is: Aanepade. Here is the PM showing the time it was sent
Thanks to all the others 12 who PM'd in (and the one who posted on here
and the one. who posted in the comments box).
Dec 03 2011 17:17 Subject Quickest checkmate
Hi Greenpawn
Here's my quickest checkmate on the site, in descriptive notation. The game is no 6675058. The Big Bishop vs Aanepade.
You can get a copy of all the games in "Most Instructive..." in PGN format here: http://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/gossimit/c/book.htm
I read his "logical chess move by move" years ago, and really liked it a lot. I probably would have got "most instructive..." at the time if it had been in algebraic notation.
It is only $9.95 new on amazon, with free shipping if you spend 25 dollars total, so might be cheaper to actually buy a new one, than have the used one shipped depending on location of the winner lol.
My introduction to chess wasn't quite a forced break in symmetry, but it put me off symmetrical openings for a long time. It was this trap in the Petroff - sometimes, breaking the symmetry is not helpful!
I know what descriptive notation is, but it is not natural for me. My father-in-law (who is Brazillian) gave me a chess book not only with descriptive notation but Spanish Descriptive notation. So I need to translate the notation and book via my knowledge of portuguese and descriptive notation!