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Submitted by waleschess on Mon, 03/02/2009 at 3:53pm.

YellHi This is my first article,

I had a chess book given to me "THE CHESS PLAYER'S handbook by Howard Staunton dated 1866my problem is that the Chess move ar in old english =

1.P.toKs4th 1.P.to Ks 4th

2.K's Kt to Bs 3rd  2. Q's Kt to B's3rd

do any one know of a chess progrham that I can use to translate into monden moves

thanks Waleschess

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by James1965 - 9 months ago
UAE Philippines
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Good day Smile!! can you send me softcopy of the book? I will appreciate it verey much thank you.

by kco - 9 months ago
Perth Australia
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yes is Nf6

also here the link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_chess_notation

by matewithme - 9 months ago
Orlando United States
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You need to use a special piece of hardware called the human brain.  It's not "olde english" it's descriptive notation.  You might try learning how to read descriptive notation, which is what Staunton is using there.  I'll help you out to start.

 

"P. to Ks4th"  reads "Pawn to the King's 4th square."  Move the King's pawn to the 4th rank.  In algebraic, that's "e4".  Now, when you're making black's moves, you have to count ranks the opposite as white- so black's 1st rank would be white's 8th, black's 2nd would be white's 7th, and so on.  So for "P. to Ks4th", you move it as if it were "e5". 

 

"K's Kt to Bs 3rd" reads "King's knight to Bishop's third square" meaning the knight on the kingside moves to the third square on the bishop's file.  Guess what that is in algebraic?  Nf3.  Then black moves "Q's Kt to Bs 3rd" reads "Queen's knight to Bishop's 3rd square."  Care to guess what that would be in algebraic?

 
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