International notation?

I saw a game in a chess magazine the other day, and the moves were listed as 4 digit numbers, like 5174. The article said it was in international notation, but didnt explain what that was. Are any of you guys familiar with it?

Yes. You have that type of notation in correspondence chess.
It goes something like this. Every square have a 2-digit number. The first digit is the column and the second digit is the row. That means that square e1 = 51. And for example b6 = 26.
When you write a move, you are writing the square it is starting from and the square it is going to. Say, your first move is e2-e4 in this notation is 5254. The castling, you are writing the king moves 5171.
The only time you put on the 5:th digit is when you are promoting a pawn.

Interesting, thanks. Seems like a logical way of doing things, but maybe easier to screw up as well, like writing e4 as 45 instead of 54

i like discriptive notation.....p-KKt4....it just sounds cool.

just my 2 cents.

Oh no not a new type of notation I hate learning things