Descriptive Notation Dead?

Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromfics
Descriptive really gets hard to handle with 4 queens. 🙂

Black to move



Q(N8)-K5

Or as Howard Staunton might have written it:
Queen on Queen's Knight eighth to King's fifth

position from Fuentes Dominguez-Tavares Lopez, Orense 2002

Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromfics
Is it completely dead now?

Here are multiple ways of writing the same move.

1. e4
2. e2-e4
3. P-K4
4. Pawn to King 4th Square (Yes, I've actually seen this in older books.)

Is 1 the only one accepted nowadays?

Sorry to say, you are dwelling on a rather minor point. It is the quality of moves that are imporntant...not the notation.
😲

Originally posted by Thomaster
I would say 1.-e4 -e5 2.-f4 xf4

Which unfortunately wouldn't be accepted by any piece of chess software.

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Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromfics
Is it completely dead now?

Here are multiple ways of writing the same move.

1. e4
2. e2-e4
3. P-K4
4. Pawn to King 4th Square (Yes, I've actually seen this in older books.)

Is 1 the only one accepted nowadays?

and don't forget 1. 5254