9. Bookkeeping

There are several more topics to be discussed about Morphy's games played at the First American Chess Congress, but first a note on methodology. The CKR file contains "tags" for game sources. Tags are PGN conventions for describing header information about a game, i.e., site, date, players, round etc. The source tags in CKR are non-standard and thus ignored by PGN readers. Its is a convenient way of adding documentation without being conspicuous. I have not used the source tags in games posted on The Morphy File blog, preferring to add the "Game Sources" section to make a more readable presentation on a web page. In our related documents file, however, the game sources are added back in as tags. The source tags are different from CKR in that the first source is the earliest publication that I have found, while in CKR, Source1 is always Shibut, Source4 is always Sergeant etc. Besides game sources, a date source tag seems desirable and perhaps another tag as a reference to the Blog post where the game was discussed would be useful. Therefore, I have added the tags "DtSrc" and "TMF" to the file.