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2. Algebraic notation (chess) - Wikipedia

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   Descriptive notation was usual in the Middle Ages in Europe. A form of algebraic chess notation that seems to have been borrowed from Muslim chess, however, appeared in Europe in a 12th century manuscript referred to as "MS. Paris Fr. 1173 (PP.)". The files run from a to h, just as they do in the current standard algebraic notation. The ranks ...

3. Chess notation - Wikipedia

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   The notation for chess moves evolved slowly, as these examples show. The last is in algebraic chess notation; the others show the evolution of descriptive chess notation and use spelling and notation of the period. 1614: The white king commands his owne knight into the third house before his owne bishop. 1750: K. knight to His Bishop's 3d.

4. Chess symbols in Unicode - Wikipedia

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   The inclusion of the chess symbols enables the use of figurine algebraic notation, which replaces the letter that stands for a piece by its symbol, e.g. ♘c6 instead of Nc6. This also allows the play of chess games in text-only environments, such as the terminal.

5. Portable Game Notation - Wikipedia

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   Portable Game Notation (PGN) is a standard plain text format for recording chess games (both the moves and related data), which can be read by humans and is also supported by most chess software. This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves.

6. Chess annotation symbols - Wikipedia

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   There are other symbols used by various chess engines and publications, such as Chess Informant and Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings, when annotating moves or describing positions. [8] Many of the symbols now have Unicode encodings, but quite a few still require a special chess font with appropriated characters.

7. Promotion (chess) - Wikipedia

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   This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. Rules When a pawn is promoted, it is removed from the board, and the new piece is placed on the square ...

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9. 0x88 - Wikipedia

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   The 0x88 chess board representation is a square-centric method of representing the chess board in computer chess programs. The number 0x88 is a hexadecimal integer (136 10 , 210 8 , 10001000 2 ). The rank and file positions are each represented by a nibble (hexadecimal digit), and the bit gaps simplify a number of computations to bitwise ...