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	Chess Guide > Algebraic Notation
		Algebraic chess notation is the method used today by all competition chess organizations and most books, magazines, and newspapers to record and describe the play of chess games.
		Chess games are often stored in computer files using Portable Game Notation (PGN), which uses algebraic chess notation as well as additional markings to describe a game.
		In full algebraic notation, moves are simply written as the beginning position, a dash ("-"), and the ending position.
	www.chess.freegames.eu.com /rules/notations/algebraic.html (836 words)

	Algebraic chess notation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Algebraic chess notation is the method used today by all competition chess organizations and most books, magazines, and newspapers to record and describe the play of chess games.
		Notations from short algebraic notation are frequently used in long algebraic notation in such constructions as "Nb1-c3" or "Rd3xd7".
		In international correspondence chess the use of algebraic notation may cause confusion, since different languages have different names (and therefore different initials) for the pieces; hence the standard for transmitting moves in this form of chess is ICCF numeric notation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Algebraic_chess_notation (1128 words)

	Chess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chess is one of the world's most popular games; it has been described not only as a game but also as an art and a science.
		Chess is played on a square board of eight rows (called ranks) and eight columns (called files), giving 64 squares of alternating color, light and dark, with each player having a light square at the near-right corner when facing the board.
		Chess openings are a sequence of moves, often memorized, which will help a player build up their position and prepare for the middlegame.
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	Chess - Wikipedia
		Chess is a two-player strategy board game of pure skill and one of the deepest and most complex games commonly played.
		Chess is played both recreationally and competitively in clubs[?], tournaments, on-line, and by mail (correspondence chess).
		At one time, chess games were recorded using Descriptive chess notation, a somewhat clumsy notation that takes more space, more time to say, and more time to explain than its replacement, algebraic chess notation.
	wikipedia.findthelinks.com /ch/Chess.html (893 words)

	Descriptive chess notation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Descriptive chess notation, or just descriptive notation is a notation for recording chess games, and at one time was the most popular notation for doing so.
		For instance, the bottom left square ('a1' in algebraic chess notation) is called "queen's rook 1" (QR1) by white and "queen's rook 8" (QR8) by fl.
		In Spanish descriptive notation the hyphen is not needed, as the rank serves as separator.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Descriptive_chess_notation (796 words)

	Algebraic Chess Notation - How to \| Chess House
		These scoresheets are used by the US Chess Federation, the official chess governing body in the United States.
		Chess competitions actually require recording of moves from the beginning scholastic levels to chess championship levels.
		To write chess notation you must indicate the piece and the square it's moving to.
	www.chesshouse.com /howto/How-to-Read-and-Write-Chess-Notation.asp (918 words)

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		Algebraic notation is the current standard and has been the official FIDE notation starting in 1981.
		Algebraic is much easier to read then the more laborous descriptive notation, and is also much easier to record quickly and accurately while playing.
		In Algebraic notation, everything is counted from the white's queen's rook's square, which is the lower left corner of the board.
	www.finitechess.com /notation.htm (437 words)

	Algebraic Chess Notation - www.indepthinfo.com
		The main advantage of algebraic notation is that every space on the chess board has one, and only one, absolute name.
		In algebraic notation, the letter is always first and the number last.
		Algebraic notation, then, is much more precise than descriptive notation in labelling moves.
	www.indepthinfo.com /chess-notation/algebraic-notation.shtml (473 words)

	Chess Rules - Chess Notation - Chess Match
		Descriptive chess notation (also called descriptive notation, English notation, and English descriptive notation) is a notation for recording a chess game and was very popular in the past.
		Algebraic chess notation is the notation used today by all competition chess organizations and in most books, magazines, and newspapers.
		The chess moves themselves are given in Algebraic chess notation.
	www.clearleadinc.com /site/chess-rule.html (809 words)

	Mark Lowery's Exciting World of Chess - Notation
		The most common notation type you will encounter and the one most frequently in use in the modern chess world is English Algebraic, (note: the United States Chess Federation refers to this system as Algebraic Notation, abbreviated AN), although you will encounter several others as well and should become familiar with them.
		English Algebraic notation is based upon assigning numbers to the 8 ranks (rows) and lower case letters to the 8 files (columns) on the board.
		In English Algebraic notation no letter is used for the pawns, which instead generally are referred to simply by the file letter from which the pawn is advanced.
	www.markalowery.net /Chess/Notation/notation.html (1886 words)

	Wikinfo \| Chess
		Chess is one of humanity's more popular games; it is has been described not only as a game, but also as both art and science.
		Chess is sometimes seen as an abstract wargame; as a "mental martial art".
		Many variants and relatives of chess are played throughout the world; amongst them, the most popular are Xiangqi (China), Buddhi Chal (Nepal) and Shogi (Japan), all of which come from the same historical stem as chess.
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	Algebraic Notation for Chess (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Algebraic notation is a common method of recording chess moves.
		Each square on the board has a name, the first character is a letter from a-h, denoting the file, and the second character a digit from 1-8 denoting the rank.
		It is important to note that the names of the squares are the same for white and fl, an important distinction from the old style of notation.
	home.comcast.net /~sresnick2/notation.html (454 words)

	Duif's Place: Chess Notation
		Chess games can be written down in a simple, easy to read notation, so that you can send games to other people or study your own games later.
		In algebraic notation, each square has one and only one name (whether you are looking from White's side of the board or Black's).
		Algebraic is now the official format for FIDE (the international Chess Federation), as well as many national federations like the USCF (US Chess Federation).
	www.jaderiver.com /chess/notate.html (1021 words)

	Chess Notation
		Chess notation is a way to record and communicate chess moves.
		The algebraic notation is now the most common notation and a standard in all major chess tournaments.
		In algebraic notation, the columns, from left to right, are a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h starting from the White side.
	www.geocities.com /SiliconValley/Lab/7378/notation.htm (1220 words)

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		Chess is not a game of chance; it is based solely on tactics and strategy, and for this reason, it is sometimes known by the soubriquet the "Game of Kings".
		The number of legal positions in chess is estimated to be between 1043 and 1050, and the game-tree complexity approximately 10123.
		Chess is sometimes seen as an abstract wargame; as a "mental martial art", and teaching chess has been advocated as a way to increase mental prowess.
	www.startchess.com (1014 words)

	Exclamation mark - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Almost always the character in question is a canon character, and most often the quality is one that is unusual, or non-canon.
		In comics, a large exclamation mark is often used in the proximity of a character's head to indicate surprise.
		In chess notation "!" denotes a good move and "!!" an excellent move.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Exclamation_mark (934 words)

	The world's top algebraic chess notation websites (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It replaced descriptive chess notation, although this notation can still be found in older literature.
		In full algebraic notation, moves include both the starting and ending position separated by a hyphen.
		Notations from algebraic notation are frequently used in long algebraic notation in such constructions as "Nb1-c3" or "Rd3xd7".
	websbiggest.com /dir-wiki.cfm?cat=algebraic_chess_notation&tab=discuss (995 words)

	Understanding Chess Notation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Each square on the chess board can be uniquely identified by combining a letter of the alphabet and a number.
		The files in chess are identified by the letters a through h.
		The rows of the chess board, which are called ranks, are identified by numbers.
	members.aol.com /manusfealy/ch44.htm (390 words)

	Chess Move Record
		In order to record and communicate chess moves, several written notations are widely used in books and by the players themselves.
		One of the most popular forms of chess notation is called the Algebraic System.
		The formal notation of cxd5 means the pawn on c4 captures the piece on d5.
	www.logicalchess.com /info/reference/notation (408 words)

	Free Online Chess
		Jonathan Levitt, an GM with a lot of chess experience under his belt, created what I believe is one of the most effective and simple, "self-tests" to determine chess aptitude.
		If you are an experienced chess player who is familiar with chess notation, you can skip this paragraph and move to the paragraph where I describe the test.
		In algebraic chess notation, each row of the chess board is assigned a number from 1 to 8, beginning with the white side.
	www.chessmaniac.com /2006/01/chess-playing-aptitude-test-how-do-you.php (830 words)

	Chess - (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The chess pieces should be set up on a standard chessboard with a white square in the near right hand corner.
		The oldest known chess pieces have been found in excavations of Moen jo Daro in Sindh dated to 3000 BC, during which time the Persians inhabited the area.
		It was introduced into Spain by the Moors in the 10th century, and described in a famous 13th century manuscript covering chess, backgammon, and dice named the Libro de los juegos.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Chess (4312 words)

	Chess (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Many variants of chess are being played throughout the world; amongst them, the most popular are Xiangqi (China) and Shogi (Japan), both of which come from the same historical stem as chess.
		In May 2002, several leaders in the chess world met in Prague and signed a unity agreement which intended to ensure the crowning of an undisputed world champion before the end of 2003, and restore the traditional cycle of qualifying matches by 2005.
		FIDE has also become involved in the organisation of this match, and there are reports that it will take place under their aegis in November 2003 in Buenos Aires.
	usapedia.com /c/chess-1.html (1181 words)

	Algebraic-Numerical Chess Notation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Today, it is the algebraic chess notation which is adopted by the orthodox chess Federation, where the pieces moves are identified by the departure and arrival squares, where each square of the 8x8 chessboard is represented by the coordinates (x,y), x=a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h and y=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8.
		In other words, using this new notation, a recorded chess game (from ordinary chess players to grandmasters) can be practically used in life and not only as an entertainement as it is now.
		Play a chess game and translate the moves with the Algebraic-Numerical chess notation using the notes for departure squares and arrival squares.
	www.chessvariants.com /misc.dir/algnumnot.html (953 words)

	Matrix Chess Notation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For this reason the algebraic chess notation was substituted and was internationally adopted and used for chess programming.
		This notation can be viewedas the pieces view of the board (that is the pieces are watching the square of the board in order to occupy them) and or the board view of the pieces (that is the squares of the chessboard are watching the pieces coming to attack, or occupy them.).
		For eample, the intersection of the fourth column and the third row of the matrix chess is the 14 + 4 = 18 th move of white, resp fl.
	www.chessvariants.com /misc.dir/notation.html (3629 words)

	Maverick Philosopher: Algebraic Versus Descriptive Chess Notation
		Therefore, one may in algebraic notation mention the starting position and the piece.
		And, as you realize, in algebraic notation there are situations in which one must mention the starting position.
		The main difference between descriptive and algebraic is that the former involves an indexical element lacking in the latter.
	maverickphilosopher.blogspot.com /2004/12/algebraic-versus-descriptive-chess.html (554 words)

	Evergreen game - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The evergreen game is the name of a famous chess game was played in 1852 by Adolf Anderssen and Jean Dufresne.
		Jean Dufresne was a popular author of chess books, and did manage to win a few games against masters.
		The game is recorded below in algebraic chess notation.
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Evergreen_game (322 words)

	Chess: Algebraic Notation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the initial array, ranks 1 and 2 are occupied by White's pieces and pawns, ranks 8 and 7 by Black's, both Queens are on the d-file, and both Kings on the e-file.
		Thus, viewed from White's side of the board (the standard convention for chess diagrams), the ranks are numbered from bottom to top, the files from left to right.
		To notate a chess move we name the piece and its destination square, interpolating ``x'' if the move is a capture.
	www.math.harvard.edu /~elkies/FS23j.04/alg_not.html (563 words)

	Grimshaw - TheBestLinks.com - Chess problem, Algebraic notation, Zugzwang, Chess problem terminology, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A Grimshaw is a device found in chess problems in which two fl pieces arriving on a particular square mutually interfere with each other.
		The key (see chess problem terminology) is 1.Qb1 (see algebraic notation), which threatens 2.Qb7#.
		It is a complete block (if white could pass his first move, then he could reply to every fl move with a mate), and white's key, 1.Bb3, holds this block, making no threat, but putting fl in zugzwang.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Grimshaw.html (655 words)

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