Thread: Everyman chess ebooks (Chessbase format)
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Old 09-09-2008, 01:06 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by vivaldirules View Post
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.

[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
I'll give Chess Strategy by Edward Laser a go. I have the book to refer back too. Anyone have any tips on book conversion? I've never tried it before.
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