Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 12:02:09 08/22/99
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On August 22, 1999 at 14:31:09, Bernie Shapiro wrote: >Does anybody know of a program that will convert Discriptive Notation to >Algebraic Notation? This is my third posting in 6 months. My school kids >(K-6)will eventually learn DN. Unfortunitly most classics are written in DN, and >I would like them to get some of the teachings of the old masters. Any help or >suggestions would be appreciated. I'd like to know, too. I would also like to know if there is a common standard for descriptive notation. Here are some questions: If white has pawns on f4 and f5, and black has pawns on e5 and e6, how do you describe fxe6? If white has knights on f3 and f5, how do you say N3d4? If white has pawns on d4 and c4, and black has pawns on d5 and c5, is dxc5 written as PxBP or QPxP, and if either of those is ambiguous do you use the other one? I can easily understand how to disambiguate algebraic. If you need to disambiguate, you use a file specifier on the moving piece first, and if that doesn't work you use a rank specifier, and if that doesn't work you use both, and that will work. You never have to disambiguate the destination square since it is always described fully, unless you don't use standard alegbraic. I've never seen an established standard for disambiguating descriptive notation. bruce
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