what happened to chess notation?

Interesting, Fischer still used descriptive, there are a lot of scoresheets where he uses it (with a horrible letter btw).

I dont know exactly when Algebraic was created, but as far as I know it was first used in Europe, he red Russian magazines and other European stuff too I would guess, and I think in that video you watched he was in Yugoslavia, so it made sense to talk in algebraic.

I actually have no problem with descriptive notation for any individual moves, but I find it the most confusing thing ever to constantly have to switch perspective every ply when following a descriptive notation game. I just wish it could always be from white's perspective.

Example: For those who don't know why descriptive notation is confusing

1: e4 e5 2: Nf3 nc6 3: Bb5 a6 in descriptive notation would be

1 P-K4 P-K4 2: N-KB3 N-QB3 3: B-N5 P-KR3

The board is literally spinning around in my head as I'm switching between notation for the white side and notation for the black side.

Also, descriptive notation takes a lot more characters and traditionally it's all capitalized, which doesn't look as nice.

"Also, descriptive notation takes a lot more characters and traditionally it's all capitalized, which doesn't look as nice."

c++ versus FORTRAN.

Yeah BronsteinPawn, I've seen those score sheets. He was a scribbler. When i watched the video I was surprised he was using it. I thought maybe he was one of the first to use algebraic or something which inspired others to use it and became more popular. The fact that he was in Yugoslavia makes sense.  Probably easier in translation as well.