Can you tell who is white/black based on the game heading?

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jpequens

When I review a game that Chess.com has posted is there a way to tell who is white and who is black based on the order of their name or anything else in the heading?

For example:

Yifan Hou (2269) vs. Nadezhda Kosintseva (2480)
Fide Women's World Championship 2006
Round 11 | 11 Mar 2006
1-0 

Is there a way to determine based on this information?  Usually I cannot tell until the end based on who I know the winner is.  However, if it is a draw I am often confused.

In other sports the home team is usually the second or bottom name on the scoreboard.  Is white considered home, and the second name?


seuss68
Names and scores are listed as white first and black second so, Yifan Hou is white. the score is 1-0 so white won.  If the score was 0-1 then black won
jpequens
Thanks!
janjojose

Alexander McDonnell vs Louis Charles Mahe De La Bourdonnais
London m4 ;HCL 18 (1834), rd 64
Sicilian Defense: Old Sicilian. General (B30)  ·  0-1

 

In above notation, what does Sicilian Defense: Old Sicilian. General imply.

 

 

manichi_80
Hi there I have the same question! So in this game Shusharin is white and Karpov is black correct?!

Thank you!

 

Karpov's Collected Games: All 530 Available Encounters by David N.L. Levy

 

llama47
manichi_80 wrote:
in this game Shusharin is white and Karpov is black correct?!

I don't know why you'd bump a topic from 13 years ago to ask this... but the answer is yes.

 

manichi_80

Thanks Llama I have another question, why is the first move 1 P-K4 P-K4??? And I don't understand the second moves either. I understand normal score sheets but actually don't understand how to read any of this hahaha, would you be able to help? Thanks in advance

aMazeMove
manichi_80 wrote:

Thanks Llama I have another question, why is the first move 1 P-K4 P-K4??? And I don't understand the second moves either. I understand normal score sheets but actually don't understand how to read any of this hahaha, would you be able to help? Thanks in advance

this is the old notation they used back in the day. Search it up, idk how to read it either

llama47
manichi_80 wrote:

Thanks Llama I have another question, why is the first move 1 P-K4 P-K4??? And I don't understand the second moves either. I understand normal score sheets but actually don't understand how to read any of this hahaha, would you be able to help? Thanks in advance

It's descriptive notation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_notation

P-K4 = pawn to king 4 = move the pawn to the 4th square in the king's column.

The annoying thing is you always count from the perspective of that player's first rank... meaning K4 (king four) is e4 for white and e5 for black.

manichi_80

Awesome thanks! Yeah I was only finding algebraic chess notations explanations which I already know! Didn't know I had to look for classical or descriptive chess notation! Got it now though! 

MikaGelataria
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