hey, new on the site, it's perfect in (nearly) every way, always hated quick time limit online chess like on yahoo. and mobile access is great. wondering though is it possible to chose your preferred notation style, which is standard algebraic for me?
If you bring up a game display and then in the light blue bar, Left-Click on "Game History", a panel with the moves played in the game so far will appear. RHP uses full algebraic in this record, giving both the square moved from and the one moved to. What you give in your example is actually abbreviated algebraic, (only the square moved to unless there is the possibility of confusion, when some distinguishing character must be included).
Originally posted by georgiecasey ok, just noticed the amount of moves you have, :-). it's obvious you know algebraic.
Actually I'm trying to learn algebraic and not doing well at it, I'm the generation brought up on Forsyth notation and it's a bigger change than just going metric! I thought the letters and numbers shown on the board and in the Game History were algebraic, that's why I asked. 😕
Originally posted by MissOleum Actually I'm trying to learn algebraic and not doing well at it, I'm the generation brought up on Forsyth notation and it's a bigger change than just going metric! I thought the letters and numbers shown on the board and in the Game History were algebraic, that's why I asked. 😕
Forsyth must be 1. P-K4 P-QB4 kind of thing right?
Originally posted by AThousandYoung Forsyth must be 1. P-K4 P-QB4 kind of thing right?
No . This is 'Descriptive Notation'.
'Forsyth Notation' is the method used to record an actual position.
It reads off the board square by square like the lines on a page of print, from a8 to h8, then a7 to h7 etc, until h1 is reached. Use capital letters to denote White's men, lower case letters for Black's, and figures for empty squares. See : -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsyth-Edwards_Notation
for a fuller description.
The notation used in our "game history" window isn't the same as any of the above examples, by the way. (similar but slightly different....)
The site also included examples of the FEN type notation that is not a record of moves in a game but rather is a way of making a notation of a specific board position at any particular time. (I think FEN stands for 'Forsyth-Edwards notation, doesn't it?)
Originally posted by georgiecasey [b]well i always remember books and people telling me that 1.P-Q4 Kt-KB3 is called forsyth, the american notation we were told.
I'm sorry, but if you reslly did find this in a book the book is a poor one,and anyone who told you this was mistaken. See my post of
14 Nov '07 16:43 in this thread and the wikipedia article given.
Forsyth was actually editor of a newspaper, the "Glasgow Weekly Herald" and invented this method of recording a position in 1883.
It gives the last move on the page. EXAMPLE e2-e4. When you analyse the game it shows it like that in half moves also. Downloading pgn shows it like 1. d4 e6 2. Ng1f3 d5 which is what you want.
12 Nov '07 11:22
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