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What does the p/ part mean? My chess experiences is all after the popularity of descriptive notation...

• gatesphere 7y ago
  p/q2-q4! p : pawn / : at q2 : queen's file, rank 2 - : moves to q4 : queen's file, rank 4 ! : good move!
  • sanderjd 7y ago
    Oh 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!
    • draegtun 7y ago
      Actually in descriptive notation the move would have been: P-Q4 Ken padded this out to 8 characters.
      • sanderjd 7y ago
        That makes way more sense!
• rimliu 7y ago
  Pawn?