CHESS NOTATION
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BxC4-i can reed but i dont keep notations.
This is important also...
Move evaluation symbols
- 1.1 ??: Blunder
- 1.2 ?: Mistake
- 1.3 ?!: Dubious move
- 1.4 !?: Interesting move
- 1.5 !: Good move
- 1.6 ‼: Brilliant move
I definitely use the algebraic -- I think the descriptive is a bit outdated (?)
Algebraic is the current standard. All of the new chess books will use it. It's a shame actually, because I can't read the old annotation, and there are some great old books in used bookstores. But definitely learn algebraic. Learn it until you can look at the squares on the board and you can call them each by name without even looking across and up.
May 14, 2022
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#7
I can’t understand that at all
Nice bump
lemme try to show those
Wait why does black move first
May 14, 2022
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#8
chaotikitat wrote:
I can’t understand that at all
Nice bump
lemme try to show those
Wait why does black move first
In the first one, Black moves first. That allows White to deliver checkmate on the second move.
May 14, 2022
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#9
Black king’s bishop’s pawn one house (f6)
White’s king pawn one house (e3)
Black’s king’s knight’s pawn two houses (g5)
White queen gives mate at the contrary king’s rook’s fourth house (Qh5#)
May 14, 2022
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#10
One book I bought recently uses the piece notation (little emojis of the pieces instead of K, Q, R, etc.), which is difficult for me to parse. And another (Silman) lists two squares for every pawn move ("b3-b4") instead of just the destination square ("b4"), which also gives me pause every time.
May 14, 2022
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#11
Chan_Fry wrote:
One book I bought recently uses the piece notation (little emojis of the pieces instead of K, Q, R, etc.), which is difficult for me to parse. And another (Silman) lists two squares for every pawn move ("b3-b4") instead of just the destination square ("b4"), which also gives me pause every time.
Figurine algebraic is standard in many international publications, such as Chess Informant.
I also find long algebraic a little distracting, but those who use it say that it reduces some ambiguity.
May 14, 2022
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#12
Ziryab wrote:
Pwnes and bifhops eh?
I guess I've never appreciated the fact that literacy and some standardization of language are two different things.
May 14, 2022
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#13
The letter s has changed over time. The one that looks like an f is in the Declaration of Independence. Also u and v. They seem flipped in some seventeenth century manuscripts. Plurals more often ended in es then than now.
May 14, 2022
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#14
Ziryab wrote:
The letter s has changed over time. The one that looks like an f is in the Declaration of Independence. Also u and v. They seem flipped in some seventeenth century manuscripts. Plurals more often ended in es then than now.
I didn't know that, but I had considered the idea, and noticed there were normal looking 's' letters in other words.
I knew that old writing often had misspellings because people just winged it (and lack of reference material / institutions that enforce it I suppose), but I'd never really appreciated how annoying it would be to live back then when, even as a literate person, reading someone else's work might be very tedious.
when you are keeping notation do you use the newer algabraic (Pe4 or BxC4 way or the descripitve (Pk4 way i use algebraic just want to know what you guys use please answer!