CHESS NOTATION

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mackandstella

when you are keeping notation do you use the newer algabraic (Pe4 or BxC4 way or the descripitve (Pk4 way i use algebraic just want to know what you guys use please answer!

9queens
BxC4-i can reed but i dont keep notations.
Rael

This is important also...

Move evaluation symbols

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  • 3 Other symbols

  • KnightNotHorse
    I definitely use the algebraic -- I think the descriptive is a bit outdated (?)
    Rael
    Algebraic is the current standard. All of the new chess books will use it. It's a shame actually, because I can't read the old annotation, and there are some great old books in used bookstores. But definitely learn algebraic. Learn it until you can look at the squares on the board and you can call them each by name without even looking across and up.
    Ziryab

    chaotikitat

    I can’t understand that at all

    Nice bump 

    lemme try to show those 

    Wait why does black move first

     

    Ziryab
    chaotikitat wrote:

    I can’t understand that at all

    Nice bump 

    lemme try to show those 

    Wait why does black move first

     

     

    In the first one, Black moves first. That allows White to deliver checkmate on the second move. 

    Ziryab

    Black king’s bishop’s pawn one house (f6)
    White’s king pawn one house (e3)
    Black’s king’s knight’s pawn two houses (g5)
    White queen gives mate at the contrary king’s rook’s fourth house (Qh5#)

    Chan_Fry

    One book I bought recently uses the piece notation (little emojis of the pieces instead of K, Q, R, etc.), which is difficult for me to parse. And another (Silman) lists two squares for every pawn move ("b3-b4") instead of just the destination square ("b4"), which also gives me pause every time.

    Ziryab
    Chan_Fry wrote:

    One book I bought recently uses the piece notation (little emojis of the pieces instead of K, Q, R, etc.), which is difficult for me to parse. And another (Silman) lists two squares for every pawn move ("b3-b4") instead of just the destination square ("b4"), which also gives me pause every time.

     

    Figurine algebraic is standard in many international publications, such as Chess Informant.

    I also find long algebraic a little distracting, but those who use it say that it reduces some ambiguity.

    llama51
    Ziryab wrote:

     

    Pwnes and bifhops eh?

    I guess I've never appreciated the fact that literacy and some standardization of language are two different things.

    Ziryab

    The letter s has changed over time. The one that looks like an f is in the Declaration of Independence. Also u and v. They seem flipped in some seventeenth century manuscripts. Plurals more often ended in es then than now.

    llama51
    Ziryab wrote:

    The letter s has changed over time. The one that looks like an f is in the Declaration of Independence. Also u and v. They seem flipped in some seventeenth century manuscripts. Plurals more often ended in es then than now.

    I didn't know that, but I had considered the idea, and noticed there were normal looking 's' letters in other words.

    I knew that old writing often had misspellings because people just winged it (and lack of reference material / institutions that enforce it I suppose), but I'd never really appreciated how annoying it would be to live back then when, even as a literate person, reading someone else's work might be very tedious.

    Ziryab

    Some writers are more inconsistent than others regarding spelling. William Clark, the explorer, could spell a word no less than three ways in a single paragraph.

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