What notation you want the most the descriptive one or the algebraic one?

My first chess books were old books that used descriptive, and I'm quite comfortable using both notation systems. I definitely think algebraic is clearer than descriptive. Algebraic is also better for people who speak other languages, especially when using symbols instead of letters.

I can't play blindfold chess if I used the descriptive notation.. :D

ALGEBRAIC, without Figures.

1. Algebraic: for most of the reasons already listed. However quaint and old-timey it feels, you can't put Descriptive Notation into a PGN strand very easily. A typewritten line of several moves is fairly easy to understand in Algebraic; under Descripitve, it can get pretty messy. Example:

Evans' Gambit Accepted (Main Line)

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Ba5 6.d4 exd4

-OR-

1.P-K4 P-K4 2.N-KB3 N-QB3 3.B-B4 B-B4 4.P-QN4 BxQP 5.P-QB3 B-QR4 6.P-Q4 PxP

I don't know about you, but I can visualize the first one pretty well in my head: The second one just looks like someone got a little too carried away with CAPS LOCK and hyphens! Though I can eventually interpret Descriptive Notation, it just seems to take longer and take up so much more space. As mentioned in other posts, there is no clear advantage to using Descriptive over Algebraic.

            However, the only thing I like about Descriptive is that a captured piece is actually named, whereas in Algebraic you only know what square the capturing piece ends up. In terms of a quick material count by just looking at a line of moves, Descriptive tells you that Black has captured 2 pawns in the above example. Algebraic only tells you Black has made 2 captures but does not specify the type of piece/pawn.

2. Without Figures:, because chess, like everything else, is increasingly becoming more digital. When I want to search for a move order in a PDF file, chess database, or just the internet in general, I can just type the letters for Algebraic. I can't quickly type ♔♕♖♗♘♙ nor can my computer recognize them in a document/web-page. The only advantage to figures is "universality" in the sense that the figures are independent of language. But I rarely have to communicate in chess language internationally, so I prefer no figures.

I grew up on descriptive, but it's all but obsolete now.  Algebraic.

There are far more than 2 notation systems for chess.

Uh-oh, this again...

What?

Yes, there are more than 2 chess notation systems at chess, but this is the main and quite popular at the time.

 Same here.. :)

Algebraic

I'd rather prefer algebraic over descriptive.

Forsthye Notation...

I swear we were just talking about this on another thread...

Figurine algebraic.