Old English notation

I got the book Masters of the Chessboard by Reti, but it is all in Old English Notation and I don't know how to read it. I really need help.

You mean descriptive?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_notation

Yes. Thank you. But what does B-QKt5ch mean? It is kind of confusing.

1980 the first OTB tournament I played in, everyone was using descriptive. By 1985 literally everyone was using algebraic. (Unless they were like 80 years old and couldn't change) 

As far as books, I dunno, seems like they all went algebraic in the mid-late 70's. 

B-QKt5ch means Bb5+ (white) or Bb4+ (black)

5 spaces out from the knight square for whoever's turn it is to move with check. It is equivalent to the algebraic notations Bb4+ and Bb5+.

Thanks!😊

It is just that the book was written in the 1920s

Read the wiki article that Martin Stahl gave you as well.

My advice to anyone who wants to read old chess books: Learn descriptive notation. It should take you about ten minutes.

Bur_Oak, you are correct.

ChessNYCNicolasS, thank you. I learned it in roughly ten minutes when I was about ten years old (in the 1960's). Granted, it took a little longer to become proficient, but descriptive notation was simple, logical, and it worked perfectly well for a very long time until chess notation had to be dumbed down for computers. I don't understand why so many people seem to be afraid of it. I understand algabraic notation. I just think it's wise to be fluent in both. It's not a big deal.

Thank you! I learned Descriptive notation! It took me a while to figure out that Kt is for knight

Sorry all of the deleted comments I just accidentally hit the send button more times then I needed.

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I think that's part of a nuclear launch code.

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