Need help with old notation

I have a book written by Tartakover i am sorry if i spelled that wrong back to the topic it has 500 games and i wanted to study some classics but they r in the old notation i know some basics about it but i am not able to read it fluently and correctly any help will be much appreciated and also tell me if u guys think that studying the classics really helps in improvement

Read or download this Book:
http://b-ok.xyz/book/1202096/b528a2
On page 12 (or page 13) there is a very good illustration and some examples about old notation.

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You could go to chessgames.com and try and download the individual games. If you type a pgn correctly, chessbase can read it. I have a pdf of this book and will translate it to chessbase or pgn file. It will take about four months.

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Wikipedia has a good article:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_notation

Donner who lampooned everyone and everything once concocted a story that the descriptive notation was invented to encrypt games that way that they could be published but no-one could replay and understand them...

With the courtesy of Jan-Hein I encrypted a game of mine like he did. Hope you like our humour:

lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/whats-with-the-kiddies-here?page=2#13

drive.google.com/open?id=1iDbuNgJwsXkPVEUeedOy3cUe5TpoRxAJ pgn of games. Copying annotations may still be against copyright.