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If anyone is curious, the equivalent in modern notation is “1. d4!”. Moving the pawn in front of the queen forward by two spaces. The exclamation point indicate
by umanwizard 7y ago
If anyone is curious, the equivalent in modern notation is “1. d4!”. Moving the pawn in front of the queen forward by two spaces. The exclamation point indicates that the annotater believes it to be a particularly strong move (describing a standard move from opening theory that way is a bit tongue-in-cheek).
- sanderjd 7y agoWhat does the p/ part mean? My chess experiences is all after the popularity of descriptive notation...
- gatesphere 7y agop/q2-q4! p : pawn / : at q2 : queen's file, rank 2 - : moves to q4 : queen's file, rank 4 ! : good move!
- sanderjd 7y agoOh hmm, I didn't realize the notation was so unnecessarily verbose :) Of course it's a pawn moving from q2 to q2, that's the only thing there at the beginning of the game!
- rimliu 7y agoPawn?
- blub 7y agoYes, "1. d4!" and "1. e4!" are a sort of a Grandmaster joke in chess, showing their strong preference for one the classic competing openings.
- GCA10 7y agoYes. The smugness in the exclamation mark is quite funny in a way that keeps me grinning for way too long. It's a bit like a three-year-old declaring "I've got shoes on!"