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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
by nabakin 3y ago
tl;dr
K = King
Q = Queen
B = Bishop
R = Rook
N = Knight
Pawns have no letter
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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
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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 agoI learned more from your concise post than I ever have from articles, Wikipedia, etc.
- 9dev 3y agoFor Real. I finally understood chess notation.
- TheDreamPolice 3y ago[dead]
- Tistron 3y agoThanks for this. What if two rooks can both get to e5, how do you disambiguate?
- bonzini 3y agoUsing 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[dead]
- kuboble 3y agoThere 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 agoJust adding promotion - d8N# pawn moves and promotes to a knight resulting in checkmate (it can happen)