Translation and Writing Samples

The following documents are in Adobe's Portable Document File (PDF) format, which can be displayed and printed with the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

• Translation from German of the Introduction to Das Internationale Schachmeisterturnier in Karlsbad 1907, by Georg Marco and Carl Schlechter. The page format of this doc is 8 1/2 x 14, so to print on an 8 1/2 x 11 page, choose the option "Shrink to Printable Area" in the "Page Scaling" drop-down menu in the Adobe Reader print menu. (In other contexts the option is often something like "Letter"; whatever the terminology you find, you want to print on a letter-sized page.) (PDF, 177K)
  
• Translation from German of Karl Kerenyi's Das Ägäische Fest: Erläuterungen zur Szene “Felsbuchten des Ägäischen Meers ” in Goethe’s Faust II. This document is in the usual 8 1/2 by 11 format. (PDF, 317K)
  
• Round 7 of AVRO 1938 International Chess Tournament, by Dale Brandreth and myself. The annotations here are my own. (PDF, 200K) The book is available here.