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To go a step further, no chess player younger than their 60s would use descriptive notation. Algebraic notation is the norm for anyone in the chess world. Bish
by casion 7y ago
To go a step further, no chess player younger than their 60s would use descriptive notation. Algebraic notation is the norm for anyone in the chess world.
Bishop-D4 (bd4), Rook takes C5 (rxc5), h3 etc... would be used.
Even older players that are still active use algebraic notation. You'd have to find someone out of the chess world for quite a while before you ended up with someone that used descriptive notation as a hard default.
- EL_Loco 7y agoYou know, this is true even in countries where (my luck) old editions of chess books are printed without updating the notation to algebraic. Turns out people buy and read the books, but when they talk about chess, they use algebraic. PS. it's changed a bit in the past few years, since the older books aren't being reprinted as much.