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vivaldirules · 09-08-2008, 09:47 AM

I looked at the four titles at Project Gutenberg on chess. This one is available in HTML and includes individual GIFs of positions but the "moves" would need to be extracted from tables. Anyway, it would not be a terribly difficult task for someone to convert to ebook form.

The Blue Book of Chess - Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis of All the Recognized Openings by Howard Staunton et al
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16377

These other three titles are all only available in ASCII TXT format so the images of positions would need to be created from the ASCII art diagrams (or perhaps find a PDF of these at Google Books or the Internet Archive and copy the images from there?):

Chess Strategy by Edward Lasker
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5614

Chess History and Reminiscences by H. E. Bird
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4902

Chess and Checkers : the Way to Mastership by Edward Lasker
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4913

09-08-2008, 09:47 AM	#19
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	I looked at the four titles at Project Gutenberg on chess. This one is available in HTML and includes individual GIFs of positions but the "moves" would need to be extracted from tables. Anyway, it would not be a terribly difficult task for someone to convert to ebook form. The Blue Book of Chess - Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis of All the Recognized Openings by Howard Staunton et al http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16377 These other three titles are all only available in ASCII TXT format so the images of positions would need to be created from the ASCII art diagrams (or perhaps find a PDF of these at Google Books or the Internet Archive and copy the images from there?): Chess Strategy by Edward Lasker http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5614 Chess History and Reminiscences by H. E. Bird http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4902 Chess and Checkers : the Way to Mastership by Edward Lasker http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4913 Last edited by vivaldirules; 09-08-2008 at 09:52 AM.