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 While travelling through Europe I decided to pick up a few of the local chess magazines. Unlike Australia, these were often on sale at the local newsagent, so grabbing a copy of  Schach Magazine, or Rochade was pretty easy. The drawback of course was that by knowledge of German was good enough to catch a train, but not enough to read the magazine.

But this is where google Translate came in handy. Previously I had just used it to find the meaning of a word or street sign, but it of course can translate whole slabs of text. By pointing my camera at the page, Translate was able to show me the English text, in real time. Of course chess is a pretty universal language, but it was still nice to read about the details of an event, rather than just the moves.

The extra benefit of this is that it gives a portion of my chess book collection a whole new use. Previously I had picked up foreign language chess books quite sparingly, but know I hope to increase my numbers, and then read them like any other book I had.