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  2. 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.

  3. Algebraic notation (chess) - Wikipedia

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    It is now almost universally used by books, magazines, newspapers and software, and is the only form of notation recognized by FIDE, [2] the international chess governing body. An early form of algebraic notation was invented by the Syrian player Philip Stamma in the 18th century. In the 19th century, it came into general use in German chess ...

  4. Chess notation - Wikipedia

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    Chess notation systems are used to record either the moves made or the position of the pieces in a game of chess. Chess notation is used in chess literature, and by players keeping a record of an ongoing game. The earliest systems of notation used lengthy narratives to describe each move; these gradually evolved into more compact notation systems.

  5. X-FEN - Wikipedia

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    X-FEN (formerly FRC-FEN) is an extension of Forsyth–Edwards Notation (FEN) introduced by Reinhard Scharnagl in 2003. [1] It was designed to be able to represent all possible positions in Fischer random chess (FRC) and Capablanca random chess (CRC). It is fully backward compatible with FEN.

  6. ICCF numeric notation - Wikipedia

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    ICCF numeric notation is the official chess notation system of the International Correspondence Chess Federation. The system was devised for use in international correspondence chess to avoid the potential confusion of using algebraic notation , as the chess pieces have different abbreviations depending on language.

  7. GBR code - Wikipedia

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    The GBR code (or Guy–Blandford–Roycroft code) is a system of representing the position of chess pieces on a chessboard.Publications such as EG use it to classify endgame types and to index endgame studies.

  8. Board representation (computer chess) - Wikipedia

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    Board representation in computer chess is a data structure in a chess program representing the position on the chessboard and associated game state. [1] Board representation is fundamental to all aspects of a chess program including move generation, the evaluation function, and making and unmaking moves (i.e. search) as well as maintaining the state of the game during play.

  9. Fifty-move rule - Wikipedia

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    The relevant part of the FIDE laws of chess is quoted below: [4]. 9.3 The game is drawn, upon a correct claim by a player having the move, if: 9.3.1 he writes his move, which cannot be changed, on his scoresheet and declares to the arbiter his intention to make this move which will result in the last 50 moves by each player having been made without the movement of any pawn and without any ...