Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 12:25:25 08/23/00
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On August 23, 2000 at 14:03:52, Steve Coladonato wrote: >On August 23, 2000 at 13:43:12, Larry Griffiths wrote: > >>My old principle continuation printouts used to be: >> >>e2-e4 a1xd1 etc. >> >>I converted them to short algebraic notation since this seems to be very popular >>and the test suites seem to use this for best move. >> >>If I remember correctly, pawn moves are e4 g7 etc and captures are bxe4 hxg7 >>etc. >> >>Other moves are Rf4 Qb6 etc and captures Rxf4 Qxb6... >> >>I cant remember what the notation looks like when the same type of pieces can >>move or capture to the same square and the notation shows which piece to move. >>Something like ra4-b4? >>How should these look? >> >The piece is determined by either the rank or the file that it presently sits >on. e.g. R8a4 or Raa4 or R6xb5 or Rbxc6 > >Steve Further, disambiguation by rank is incorrect if disambiguation by file is possible. This is something that has been broken in more than one ChessMaster release, though. Dave
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