How to Write Chess Moves

Chess is fun, that's why you are on chess.com and are reading this, there are games you like and some you don't. Though wouldn't it be fun if you could store these games(on something like a piece of paper)? Well this is the article for you(Very original saying).

Each square is assigned a name. The bottom of the board are your files. They are letters a-h(left to right) if you are white, and h-a(left to right) if you are black. The side of the board are your ranks. They are numbers 1-8 down to up if you're white, and 8-1 down to up if you're black.

Each piece is assigned a letter. 

If you are wondering why the knight doesn't use K it's because of the king.

So to write a move, we must do it like this: Piece letter + Space moved to.

Sometimes the same kind of piece can move to the same square as another one. So if that's the case we write the rank/file in between. We use the rank if they're both on the same file and vice versa. So our new 'formula' is: Piece letter + (Rank/File) + Space moved to. If there are 3 pieces of the same kind that can move to the same square, we use both.

When the piece moves it can checkmate or check. When the piece checks the king you use a '+', and if it's checkmate we use a '#'. So the new 'formula' is: Piece letter + (Rank/File) + Space moved to + (check/checkmate.).

A piece can also take another piece. You use an 'x' to say you took. So now the 'formula' is: Piece letter + (Rank/File) + (Took or not [x]) + Space moved to + (check/checkmate.) When a pawn takes you use there file letter.

And sometime a pawn can promote, so to write that we would say where the pawn moved, and '= (piece)'.  So now our 'formula' is a tongue twister. It goes: Piece letter + (Rank/File) + (Took or not[x]) + Space moved to + (check/checkmate) + (If pawn, = what piece promoted to).

And that's it. You can see them written in the example below: