Maybe it means... pawn takes Knight ?
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it doesn't use algebraic notation though.
This is Descriptive Notation, which was used throughout the English-speaking chess world until the 1980s. It’s not hard to learn. There’s a good Wikipedia article
Jan 14, 2022
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As others have said, this is descriptive notation. IMHO, it is more difficult to read than algebraic notation, since the black side is written from the black side's perspective, but not impossible.
Herei is a converter.
http://marianogappa.github.io/ostinato-examples/convert.html
Laskersnephew wrote:
This is Descriptive Notation, which was used throughout the English-speaking chess world until the 1980s. It’s not hard to learn. There’s a good Wikipedia article
It looks hard to me but certainly learnable.
binomine wrote:
Herei is a converter.
http://marianogappa.github.io/ostinato-examples/convert.html
Thanks bino mine. More cool apps or software that you can recommend?
I hate that notation. I was watching "Pawn Sacrifice" and they were using it then too
binomine wrote:
Herei is a converter.
I didn't know there was a converter for things like that
I was reading a chess book when they were using a weird kind of notation like p-xkn I'm very puzzled.