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Mourning the Demise of Descriptive Notation
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Nov 24, 2020
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#123
nope, sometimes g1-f3 is all you get! the "-" makes the difference. We can argue about this all day long, but I think we've exhausted this sub-topic.
Nov 24, 2020
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#124
LOL - I was born barefooted. I live barefooted. I expect to die barefooted. Shoes suck! LOL! =)
Nov 24, 2020
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#125
Yes, long,
I have software programs that say differently. Like I said, we can argue this indefinitely. Why are you continuing? Do you want someone to say you are correct?
Barefoot_Player wrote:
Actually no. Battleship came after FIDE (1924), after the introduction of AN (by at least 150 years ), and the Cartesian system (by at least 250 years).
It could be claimed that chess notation influenced Battleship, which came later than AN or chess, rather than the other way around.
This is from Wikipedia:
"The first commercial version of the game was Salvo, published in 1931 in the United States by the Starex company. Other versions of the game were printed in the 1930s and 1940s, including the Strathmore Company's Combat: The Battleship Game, Milton Bradley's Broadsides: A Game of Naval Strategy and Maurice L. Freedman's Warfare Naval Combat. Strategy Games Co. produced a version called Wings which pictured planes flying over the Los Angeles Coliseum. All of these early editions of the game consisted of pre-printed pads of paper.[2] "
Actually played Broadsides (reissued for the Bicentennial). No real way to record moves, but easy to win if you thought of the ships as half-rooks that moved along one axis while attacking on the other.
Nov 24, 2020
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#127
long,
Oh dear!
OK, here is a chess.com link.
https://www.chess.com/article/view/chess-notation
And here is line from that article.
“Long Algebraic Notation gives the square of origin as well as the destination square for each move.”
Nowhere does it state or indicate that a piece on the square of origin needs to be named.
Now, can we just drop this subtopic?
Nov 24, 2020
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#129
long,
Write back to Eric and tell him he's wrong.
Meanwhile, I have to get ahold of the people who wrote your computer program and tell them that they are wrong.
How far are you willing to continue this long discussion, long?
Nov 24, 2020
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#130
I didn't know that. Thanks for the update!
Guess I can't write a letter to them! =)
Nov 24, 2020
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#131
Anyways we should have descriptive as a possibility for paying-supporting members
Nov 24, 2020
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#132
Yeah Definitley , I think paying members supporters of the website should have access to descriptive that would be q nice feature
Nov 24, 2020
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#136
totally yeah I agree descriptive notation should be a thing or could be an option in settings ...so we can choose between the different type of notations.
Nov 24, 2020
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#137
so yeah ..descriptive is a thing for many then, so bring it on chess com! subscribers only first to test
Nov 24, 2020
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#138
long,
"I cannot think of a single thing, not even chess, that introduce that concept more than Battleship."
Um, multiplication tables, Cartesian coordinates (that’s the proper name for the X and Y systems you probably learned in JHS or HS), graphing paper, maps (of cities, the world and undersea), grid systems, mechanical drawings, architectural drawings, logic tables, and mapping of gravestones.
I could think of more if you like, but I think I made my point.
Nov 24, 2020
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#139
long,
Why are you resorting to insults? Gee, now what did i do to get you angry?
What you described with "(7,1) to (6,3)" is a function, not a grid. Or, if you leave out the "to", you have two points on a grid system.
To write 1.e4 or 1.P-K4, in correspondence, using the numeric notation, would be 5254.
Nov 24, 2020
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#140
Turned on my computer just now to see a great number of inane petty comments with no relation to the original question. How does this happen? Why is suggesting possible answers and offering relevant information supplanted by babbling about babble?
My guess is that algebraic is easier to interpret by those who speak other languages. I could use Schwarz's opening books even though I know no German, because seeing Sf3 as an early move made it obvious that S means knight (Springer). I would have been hard pressed to figure out S-KL3.
So does anyone here have some chess fonts? Do you use them? Would you use them for AN or DN? Curious minds want to know! =)