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'''David Forsyth''', (1854 – 1909)<br/>
was a Scottish chess player and chess editor of the ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Herald_(Glasgow) Glasgow Weekly Herald]'' who emigrated to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand New Zealand]. Forsyth created a method for recording chess positions, which was base of [[Steven Edwards|Steven Edwards']] specification of the [[Forsyth-Edwards Notation]] abbreviated as '''FEN''' - part of [[Portable Game Notation|PGN]] and [[Extended Position Description|EPD]] <ref>[http://www.thechessdrum.net/PGN_Reference.txt PGN-Reference 16.1.1: History]</ref>.
Forsyth was mentioned compiling a [[Go]] column in the ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otago_Witness Otago Witness]'', from February 1902 until March 1903 <ref>[https://go.org.nz/index.php/about-go/history-of-go-in-new-zealand go.org.nz - History:Early Go in Otago - August 1990]</ref>.
=See also=
* [[Mathematician#DAForsyth|David A. Forsyth]]
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Forsyth_(chess_player) David Forsyth from Wikipedia]
* [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=19459 The chess games of Forsyth] from [http://www.chessgames.com/index.html chessgames.com]
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'''David Forsyth''', (1854 – 1909)<br/>
was a Scottish chess player and chess editor of the ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Herald_(Glasgow) Glasgow Weekly Herald]'' who emigrated to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand New Zealand]. Forsyth created a method for recording chess positions, which was base of [[Steven Edwards|Steven Edwards']] specification of the [[Forsyth-Edwards Notation]] abbreviated as '''FEN''' - part of [[Portable Game Notation|PGN]] and [[Extended Position Description|EPD]] <ref>[http://www.thechessdrum.net/PGN_Reference.txt PGN-Reference 16.1.1: History]</ref>.
Forsyth was mentioned compiling a [[Go]] column in the ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otago_Witness Otago Witness]'', from February 1902 until March 1903 <ref>[https://go.org.nz/index.php/about-go/history-of-go-in-new-zealand go.org.nz - History:Early Go in Otago - August 1990]</ref>.
=See also=
* [[Mathematician#DAForsyth|David A. Forsyth]]
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Forsyth_(chess_player) David Forsyth from Wikipedia]
* [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=19459 The chess games of Forsyth] from [http://www.chessgames.com/index.html chessgames.com]
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