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Can you please tell me? I've been stuck on it for an hour and a half.... I really need help ;-;

• nabakin 3y ago
  tl;dr K = King Q = Queen B = Bishop R = Rook N = Knight Pawns have no letter . You append a "+" to the end when it is a check move You append a "#" to the end when it's a checkmate move You add an "x" when your move eats another piece . Examples - Moving a rook to g6: Rg6 - Moving a queen to d7 which eats a piece: Qxd7 - Moving a bishop to a3 which checks the opponents king: Ba3+ - Moving a pawn to e5: e5 - Moving a queen to h7 which eats a piece and checks the king: Qxh7+ - Moving a pawn to f4 which checkmates the king: f4#
  • rkagerer 3y ago
    I learned more from your concise post than I ever have from articles, Wikipedia, etc.
    • 9dev 3y ago
      For Real. I finally understood chess notation.
      • TheDreamPolice 3y ago
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  • Tistron 3y ago
    Thanks for this. What if two rooks can both get to e5, how do you disambiguate?
    • bonzini 3y ago
      Using the column they are on, or the row if they are both on the same column. For example Rac8 moves a rook from a8 to c8, R1d2 moves it from d1 to d2.
    • TheDreamPolice 3y ago
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  • kuboble 3y ago
    There are few more. Rae1 - rook a to e1. if two rooks on the first line can move to e1. R4d4 - if two rooks on the 4th line can go to d4. Ngxh2# - the knight from g captures on h2 with checkmate. Nd2e4 - In a rare case that there are 3 knights that can go to a single square Pawn captures are denoted as exd5 (pawn on the line e captures a pawn on d5) even if there is only one pawn that can make a capture.
  • have_faith 3y ago
    Just adding promotion - d8N# pawn moves and promotes to a knight resulting in checkmate (it can happen)