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	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.
		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 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 (1108 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 (794 words)

	Wikipedia: Chess
		Chess (the "Game of Kings") is a board game for two players, which requires 32 chesspieces (or chessmen) and a board demarcated by 64 squares.
		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".
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/c/ch/chess_1.html (1266 words)

	Chess
		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.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ch/Chess.html (904 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> chess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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 variants are forms of chess where the game is played with a different board, special fairy pieces or different rules.
		Nor has the study of chess proven particularly useful in the broader AI field; the methods used to play high-level chess are very different to the ones used for machine learning, machine vision, and the like.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/chess (4183 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)

	Chess Guide > Algebraic Notation
		It replaced descriptive chess notation, although the older notation can still be found in older literature.
		Castling is indicated by the special notations O-O (for kingside castling) and O-O-O (queenside).
		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 (864 words)

	Descriptive Chess Notation - www.indepthinfo.com
		Chess is one of the few sports where a blow by blow record of events can be accurately recreated from a few notes on a sheet of paper.
		What at one time we simply called chess notation, we now call "descriptive notation" to diferentiate it from the newer, now more accepted algebraic notation.
		In fact, descriptive notation appears the same when viewed from either the fl side or the white side.
	www.indepthinfo.com /chess-notation/descriptive-notation.shtml (339 words)

	Chess Notation
		Chess notation is a way to record a game of chess.
		To notate a piece moving on the chessboard first write the piece identifier and then the square the piece is moving to.
		Descriptive Notation does have a piece identifier for a Pawn and it is what you probably thought it would be, a P. A game that begins: 1.
	www.logicalchess.com /hcc/scholastics/tutorials/notation.html (894 words)

	Chess Guide > Chess Rules
		Chess is played on a square board, divided into 64 squares of alternating color (32 white, 32 fl), upon which move 16 "light" and 16 "dark" pieces.
		Chess sets are usually either fl and white, red and fl, or white and green.
		Algebraic chess notation is presently used for this, though some older books still use descriptive chess notation.
	chess.go.ro /rules (1483 words)

	Mark Lowery's Exciting World of Chess - English Descriptive Notation
		The English Descriptive notation type, while an older notation type and not in use as much anymore, was widely used in chess world.
		The notation type is not obsolete and is still used, especially by those who grew up with it and learned it as the primary chess notation type while learning chess.
		English Descriptive notation is not an easy system to learn, but once learned is easy to apply when reading the notation.
	www.markalowery.net /Chess/Notation/descriptive_notation.html (484 words)

	Mark Lowery's Exciting World of Chess - Notation
		In chess books and publications, as well as computer and Internet chess programs, you will see principally two types of noting moves made during a game regardless of the method of chess notation type used.
		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.
		A move by a piece not involving a capture is noted by using the upper case/capitalized letter assigned to the piece followed by the lower case letter of the file and the number of the rank of the square to which the piece is moved.
	www.markalowery.net /Chess/Notation/notation.html (1886 words)

	Algebraic Chess Notation - www.indepthinfo.com
		In the last few decades, because of the confusion inherent in descriptive chess notation, algebraic notation was developed.
		The main advantage of algebraic notation is that every space on the chess board has one, and only one, absolute name.
		Thus, the square where the white queen begins the game is a4, not Q1 or Q8 as it would be in descriptive notation (depending on which side of the board you are sitting).
	www.indepthinfo.com /chess-notation/algebraic-notation.shtml (473 words)

	Chess Glossary
		It is intended as a standard position notation for Chess programmers, for page layout programs, and for confirming position status for e-mail competition.
		A system of recording the moves of a Chess game similar to Algebraic Notation except that small pictures of the pieces and Pawns are substituted for their names.
		A clock which, in addition to serving the usual functions of a Chess clock, adds a certain amount of time to each player's clock after each move, in order to avoid desperate time scrambles at the end of a game, which often result in poor moves.
	www.chess-poster.com /english/glossary.htm (4360 words)

	Chess Notation
		Chess notation is a way to record and communicate chess moves.
		The first method is the descriptive notation and the second method is the algebraic notation.
		The descriptive notation has been around the longest and is the method found in older chess books and magazines.
	www.geocities.com /SiliconValley/Lab/7378/notation.htm (1220 words)

	Backgammon Miscellaneous
		The difference is somewhat analogous to the descriptive chess notation (where both sides play P-K4) and the algebraic notation (where white plays e4 and fl plays e5 -- full disclaimers if I have this wrong, since I am used to the descriptive notation in chess).
		The "standard" was pretty much set as the descriptive notation (what you see in Inside Backgammon) when Kent Goulding published the first modern collection of annotated matches several years ago in his excellent series, Backgammon with the Champions.
		Today I think you will find that almost all backgammon literature, both books and magazines, uses the descriptive notation where each player is moving down from his 24 point -- thus both players play 8/5, 6/5 when making their five point rather than one player playing 8/5, 6/5 and the other playing 17/20, 19/20.
	www.bkgm.com /rgb/rgb.cgi?view+91 (407 words)

	Chess Guide > Descriptive Notation
		It is not used often today (most people today use algebraic chess notation), but is still important for understanding older textbooks on Chess.
		The primary difference between algebraic and descriptive notation is how squares are specified.
		Squares written as a1 through h1 in algebraic notation are written in descriptive notation as QR1, QKt1, QB1, Q1, K1, KB1, KKt1, and KR1.
	www.chess.freegames.eu.com /rules/notations/descriptive.html (476 words)

	US Chess History
		Chess notation is thus the special written" language" of chess players, making it possible for a single book to contain hundreds of games by great players, or thousands of opening variations.
		Stamma's system was almost identical to modern algebraic notation, with the files of the board designated " a-h" and the ranks numbered "1-8." However, he tried to make the notation completely international by using standard piece names as well as standard letters and numbers for the squares.
		As notation simplified, chess books were able to include more information, and the number of chess books began to increase exponentially.
	www.chessmuseum.org /history0799.html (802 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).
		Before the 1970s, when chess database programs were not available, there were several ways of indicating which piece a pawn had been promoted to when it reached the 8th rank.
	www.jaderiver.com /chess/notate.html (1021 words)

	Chess Corner - Chess Tutorial - Chess Notation
		The moves of a chess game can be recorded in a variety of ways.
		You will probably see algebraic notation used more often but older chess books often use descriptive notation.
		In this type of notation the starting square of the chess piece is left out and only the destination square is written.
	www.chesscorner.com /tutorial/basic/notation/notate.htm (632 words)

	Learn more about Chess in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Gameplay does not involve random luck; consisting solely of strategy, (see also tactics, and theory).
		Chess originated from the Indian game Chaturanga, about 1400 years ago.
		As of December 2003, there are no reported plans for the match, and it is not clear whether it will ever go ahead.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /c/ch/chess_1.html (1224 words)

	U-Chess
		The square that is a1 in algebraic notation is noted as QR1 by white and QR8 by fl.
		The square that is e3 in algebraic notation is noted as K3 by white and K6 by fl.
		In standard descriptive notation, ambiguities can also be removed by check, mate, or en passant symbols, but these are ignored for the purposes of U-chess.
	www.chessvariants.com /misc.dir/uchess.html (1328 words)

	Chess: Share and Discover Chess Bio, Pictures, News at BlinkBits. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Cool Chess Center in association with East Bay Chess Club is organizing a scholastic team tournament March 17-19, 2006.
		Chess openings are a sequence of moves, often memorized, which will help a player build up their position and prepare for the middlegame.
		Another method of playing chess is called Suicide Chess, where the pieces function normally, however the goal is to lose all of ones pieces first and if a piece can be taken, it must be taken by the opposing side.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/chess (4284 words)

	Matrix Chess Notation
		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 (3649 words)

	Descriptive chess notation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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	Chess Test. Chess Quiz
		Very important: it is not a test of chess combinations, so consider the following positions as they were taken from your own games.
		To be able to answer all the questions you have to know the English descriptive chess notation.
		Explaining the English descriptive chess notation is not our aim.
	www.chessarea.com /chess-strategy/chess-test (358 words)

	GotW #72: Data Formats and Efficiency
		In this case, we are mimicking one of the standard online notations, which uses a 'W' or 'B' or '.' to designate the side that owns the piece in the given square, and a 'K', 'Q', 'R', 'B', 'N', 'P', or '.' to designate the type of piece in the given square.
		Old-style "descriptive" chess notation identifies squares using variable-length tags like K3 and QN8, instead of using two-character tags like e3 and b8.
		Modern "algebraic" chess notation is more compact, and any half-move can be written using at least 2 characters (e.g., d4) and at most 4 characters (e.g., Rgf1, gh=Q).
	www.gotw.ca /gotw/072.htm (3186 words)

	How to read descriptive chess notation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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		Chess Etiquette demonstrate good sportsmanship and promotes a comfortable environment free of hostilities and grievances.
		Chess Etiquette includes some traditions and courtesies which are unique to the game of chess and are often included as rules requiring strict adherance at clubs or tournaments.
		Any use of chess books should be agreed to by both players before play begins.
	www.finitechess.com /etiquette.htm (291 words)

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