Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)
Date: 17:31:02 08/22/99
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On August 22, 1999 at 15:02:09, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >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. I haven't seen one. > >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? PxP(K6) > >If white has knights on f3 and f5, how do you say N3d4? N(B3)-Q4 > >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? The former, and yes. > >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. Likewise. > >bruce
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