OoChess Tutorial - Chess Games

In this tutorial, we'll discuss how to create a tournament or game collection book using Open Office Writer and the OoChess template. What we will do is recreate a partial tournament book for The International Chess Congress, St. Petersburg, 1909. We are fortunate in that none other than Emanuel Lasker himself, the World Chess Champion from 1894 to 1921, played in this tournament and wrote the above named tournament book. This is now in the public domain, so we will use it as a source of material and we will create our own tournament book from it.

This tutorial will make use of many advanced features of the OoChess template, including PGN game insertion, Game and Opening Index insertion, and the modifying of the OoChess configuration file.

We begin by creating the shell for our tournament book. This is slightly more advanced than any we have created so far. We then go on to create a crosstable for the tournament using the Crosstable Insertion feature in OoChess. The layout options for the book are discussed next.

Then we get down to converting Lasker's old notes, written in old Descriptive Notation, into the modern Algebraic Notation. Once we have the first game ready, we use the OoChess PGN game insertion tool to insert the game and then examine what changes we want to make to the OoChess configuration file. Once we are satisfied with our configuration file settings, we move on to do the games round by round, inserting them into our tournament book.

For our last steps, we insert a Game and Opening Index and then export our tournament book as a PDF file so that it becomes accessible to everyone.

You can download a PDF copy of this tutorial by itself just to peruse and see if it is of any interest to you:

PDF of the Tutorial:

 

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When you click on the above link, the PDF of the tutorial will be displayed in Word Online. Just below the top left corner, just below Word Online, you'll see the  DOWNLOAD button. Click on this to download a copy of the tutorial for yourself.

If you would like all the material that you need to reconstruct the example St. Petersburg, 1909 book, then download the ZIP file here:

ZIP of all this Tutorial's Files:

http://1drv.ms/1x2eTQG

Note: I had originally planned to complete the entire tournament book for The International Chess Congress, St. Petersburg, 1909. But then I discovered that Tim Harding has already done this and has had his book published. Therefore, I will not complete the book after all. The first seven rounds is more than sufficient to provide this tutorial with the material it needs for the exercise of making a game book.