1) I never bothered counting them.
2) Half Chess Board has Light Squares
3) Files
4) Ranks
5) 2
6) Instincts
7) Alphabetically
8) Numerically
9) K, Q, & R
10) N & B
11) Pawn is worth 0.9 to 1.20 depending on how close the pawn is towards center of board.
Knight is worth 2.5 to 3.5 depending on how far up the board it travels. Starting Position Knight is 2.5.
Bishop is worth 2.5 to 3.5 depending on how closed or open the position is. Starting Position is 3.5.
12) Rook is worth 5 and Queen is worth 9
13) Queen is positioned left of the King.
14) Knight can be equivalent to 3 pawns.
Queen can be equivalent to 1 Rook + 1 Bishop, 3 Minor Pieces, or 2 Major Pieces.
15) d5, d4, e5, & e4
16) They can promote to pieces, but are not pieces till they reach end of the enemy board.
17) You Code a pawn based on the Square the Pawn moves too. You also don’t capitalize the Letters of the pawn moves. This is if you are coding in Short Hand Algebraic Form. If the E pawn on e2 square moved to e4 on move 1, You would say 1.e4 in short hand Algebraic Code. Long hand would show the movement of the pawn from starting location to arrive location such as 1. e2-e4. Than you have Descriptive Code I believe is name of it. Descriptive Code bases everything under the side of the Board pawn comes from in location to King or Queen as well as long handed algebraic Code.
They would say The King’s Pawn on e2 was moved to e4. I have forgotten how they write it though.
I think they write it as 1. KP-e2-e4, but I’m sure someone can correct me if I’m wrong.
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