Random Posts

  • Emory Tate
  • The Demise of Plasticbishop
  • Advanced Chess and a Tartajubow Rant
  • A Long Tactical Chain of Moves by Alekhine
  • Win with the Grob Attack
  • Reshevsky Anecdotes
  • U.S. Championship Match That Never Was
  •  Denker Mauls Fine, Wins US Championship
  • Bobby Fischer's Winning Basket and Paris 1938
  • Wednesday, June 21, 2017

    Print Your Own Chess Book the Easy Way

         Back in May I did a post on using chess notebooks and earlier this month did one on Rolf Wetzell who suggested using flash cards, but I was thinking that if you have a program like Aquarium or Chess Assistant you could easily make a workbook with a three ring binder and a hole punch. Your workbook could be on anything: openings, interesting middlegame positions or endings. You can also make your own chess books and then save then in pdf format. The possibilities are endless. 
         It's probably technically not legal, but you could also copy games out of books or magazines into Word and then format the pages however suits you. One good way to do this is with a good Optical Character Recognition software program. The best free OCR program I have found is FreeOCR. It is very simple to use and supports multi-page tiff's, fax documents as well as most image types and has Twain scanning.  Here is a sample page I created using Chess Assistant:

    No comments:

    Post a Comment