Hi All,

I have been playing chess for years and never bothered to learn how the moves are tracked by the number/letter system.I have tried but seem to get confused on some of them where can i learn it better?

     Thankyou for your time and efforts!

                                             J.Case

try this :

http://www.chess.com/article/view/notation

I hope it's what you are looking for.

 Try this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_chess_notation

Hope this helps.

TYVM=You all have been very helpful.  Now all i have to do is try to memorize the system and how to use it!

Good memory jog Melanerz ... I haven't played for a while. Can you remind me how to "castle" using the browser? I thought I needed to move the King to the appropriate square but I tried in a game a few minutes ago and the computer ignored me (probably because I hadn't done it right).

DrBobR - you've got the right idea.  Possibly you were castling through check, a piece had already moved, or some other violation of castle eligibility.

Thanks! I was able to get 0-0 to work in the live vote chess game. I'm on my way!

I like http://www.logicalchess.com/hcc/scholastics/tutorials/notation.html. You will find plenty of good sites if you just google "chess notation".

Ah, what would we ever do without google