Every Move Explained - More Proofreading!
What's every writer's least favorite job? I imagine it's proofreading. For reasons I explained last year in Every Move Explained - Proofreading!, the Every Move Explained series is particularly prone to errors. I reviewed the most recent games...
- 1907 Lodz - Rotlewi vs. Rubinstein
- 1927 New York - Alekhine vs. Marshall
- 2007 Barcelona - Krasenkow vs. Nakamura
...and discovered that the quality ranged from embarrassingly bad to surprisingly acceptable. The worst errors are writing 'White' when I mean 'Black', and vice versa. How is an automated proofreader ever going to catch that? While I was looking at the latest batch of games, I noticed some stylistic differences with earlier games in the series...
- 1937 Margate - Thomas vs. Keres
- 1962 Varna Olympiad - Tal vs. Mohrlok
- 1981 Tilburg - Kasparov vs. Andersson
...Have these been proofread? When I make the styles consistent, I'll read them all again.
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