A Conversation for Algebraic Chess Notation
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the Shee Started conversation Oct 11, 2001
I thought that a8 is Black's lower right corner.... And then that White's lower right is h1.... Then the board would be set up like this (sorry about the spacing of the letters; that was the only way I could justify them.):
Black
|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|8
|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|7
|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|6
|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|5
|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|4
|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|3
|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|2
|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|1
_A_B_C_D_ E_F_G_H
White
At least, that is the way I remember it...
You might also want to include that "+" means Check and "++" is Checkmate.
the Shee
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