Welcome to ...

The place where the world comes together in honesty and mirth.
Windmills Tilted, Scared Cows Butchered, Lies Skewered on the Lance of Reality ... or something to that effect.


Saturday, February 26, 2011

Chess Games Converted into Musical Notation, Then Played

Jonathan W. Stokes observed:
One can’t help but notice that algebraic chess notation maps almost perfectly to scientific pitch notation…
So he devised a means of expressing chess moves musically and then converted several famous chess games into piano compositions. Here, for example, is a 1858 game in which Paul Morphy defeated Duke Karl of Brunswick and Count Isouard.

No comments: