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Originally Posted by Patricia
PG Canada has this:
Znosko-Borovsky, The Middle Game in Chess, Third Edition (1938)
Chess treatise: translated into English by Julius Du Mont (1881-1956)
in HTML and Text.
http://www.gutenberg.ca/
(scroll down to near the bottom of the page.)
The copyright has expired in life+50 years countries. |
I have just converted and uploaded this book. I hope it is formatted well enough. The creator of the HTML file at Gutenberg Canada was rather clever in that he/she created the images of chess positions using a table into which they simply arranged the standard peices and set the background of the table to either white or grey. This made the HTML document much smaller than it would have been with 83 separate JPEGs. Unfortunately, of course, BookDesigner simply choked on it and I had to tediously recreate the individual JPEGs manually. I also had to manually extract all the moves that the transcriber had so neatly placed into tables (which BD doesn't support either). I don't think I'll be converting chess books again soon (this one took me six hours) and I hope that whoever does is able to find ways to surmount these challenges. Still, it was interesting and I hope you enjoy it.