Hello I am relatively new to chess. I bought chess fundamentals by J.R. Capablanca & I have no idea how to read the notation . I tried the scoring explanantion on this website but it gives no reference to the notation that is used in the Mckay chess library series… can someone please help me.
The following URL covers both algebraic and descriptive notation:
uschess.org/about/forms/KEEPINGSCORE.pdf
If the book you cite uses something other than that, I’m not sure what it could be. Please list a couple of moves from a game, that way we can help identify what notation system it is using.
Here are some of the moves i cant figure it out…
2…K-B;3 K-B3,K-KI;4 K-K4, K-QI;5 K-Q5,K-BI;6 K-Q6
Thanks for any help…
Someone who has the book could probably answer better, but it looks like descriptive notation from a diagrammed position, with a typo for black’s second move and a capital I instead of a numeral one for later moves. I think restating the notation as follows would be correct:
Corrected(?) descriptive (the URL listed before should help you understand this)
2…K-B1; 3 K-B3,K-K1; 4 K-K4,K-Q1; 5 K-Q5,K-B1; 6 K-Q6
Algebraic
2…Kf8; 3 Kf3,Ke8; 4 Ke4,Kd8; 5 Kd5,Kc8; 6 Kd6
I agree that it is almost certainly descriptive notation, perhaps with a poorly chosen font so that ‘I’ and ‘1’ look similar.
If you want to REALLY confuse an OCR reader, try scanning a chess book! It gets the context SO wrong! 
“K-B” is not a typo. That’s how the move was written at that time (“King to Bishop square”). I don’t have “Chess Fundamentals” handy, but this was done consistently in “My Chess Career.”