Author: Steve Coladonato
Date: 15:21:47 08/23/00
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On August 23, 2000 at 15:25:25, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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 Dave, Thanks for clarifying this point. I really wasn't sure which superseded when I did the post. So in the example given, Raa4 takes precedence over R8a4. Steve
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