Answers.Body: <p><a href="https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?yearcomp=le&amp;year=1600" rel="noreferrer">Here</a> is a list of such games at chessgames.com.</p>
  <p>Of course, you can't blindly copy them; <a href="https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1259987" rel="noreferrer">the oldest one</a> is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scachs_d%27amor" rel="noreferrer">fictional game from a poem</a> and some aren't complete games. But it should give you a start ...</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Interesting.  The links I find there show the games written in modern notation.  I would like to see a document from that time showing the moves in the game.
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Answers.Text: Those can (sometimes) be found by Googling the player names, though I didn't do a thorough search yet.
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Answers.Text: Your third and final link to the poem actually shows the moves in the game in a _really_ descriptive notation.
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Body: <p>Do we have examples of recorded chess games from 1600 or before?  A game where all the moves were written down.  It would be interesting to see such a record.</p>
  <p>This question was inspired by <a href="https://hsm.stackexchange.com/q/15121/2277">Was not chess notation an earlier sort of Cartesian Coordinates?</a> on History of Science and Mathematics Stack Exchange. (There it is asked whether chess notation may have influenced Descartes' coordinate system work; but that is not my question here.)</p>
  
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Title: Early recorded games (before 1600)
ThreadText: # Early recorded games (before 1600)
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2023-01-23)
  
  Do we have examples of recorded chess games from 1600 or before? A game where all the moves were written down. It would be interesting to see such a record.
  
  This question was inspired by [Was not chess notation an earlier sort of Cartesian Coordinates?](https://hsm.stackexchange.com/q/15121/2277) on History of Science and Mathematics Stack Exchange. (There it is asked whether chess notation may have influenced Descartes' coordinate system work; but that is not my question here.)
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2023-01-23. Score: 5
  
  [Here](https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?yearcomp=le&year=1600) is a list of such games at chessgames.com.
  
  Of course, you can't blindly copy them; [the oldest one](https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1259987) is a [fictional game from a poem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scachs_d%27amor) and some aren't complete games. But it should give you a start ...
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Interesting.  The links I find there show the games written in modern notation.  I would like to see a document from that time showing the moves in the game.  
  > **username_1**: Those can (sometimes) be found by Googling the player names, though I didn't do a thorough search yet.  
  > **username_2**: Your third and final link to the poem actually shows the moves in the game in a _really_ descriptive notation.  
  
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