David Forsyth (chess)

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David Forsyth (1854–1909), a Scotsman who emigrated to New Zealand, served as chess editor of the Glasgow Weekly Herald. Forsyth invented and published a method for recording chess positions, now known as Forsyth notation.

He was also one of the compilers of what was possibly the first regular Go column in any newspaper (in the Otago Witness, from February 1902 until March 1903), according to the New Zealand Go Society.^[1]

In recent times, Forsyth notation has been extended as Forsyth-Edwards Notation for use with computers.

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