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Subject: Re: Chess piece abbreviations

Author: Andreas De Troy

Date: 15:33:57 06/24/01

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On June 23, 2001 at 19:10:59, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote:

>On June 23, 2001 at 18:59:48, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>Does anybody know where I can get a list in German, Spanish, French, etc.?
>>
>>I know that R in German is T, etc., but a lot more of that is what I'm looking
>>for.
>>
>>Thank you,
>>
>>bruce
>
>From the PGN "standard.txt"
>
>17: Alternative chesspiece identifier letters
>
> ...
>For the above authors only, a list of alternative piece letter codes are
>provided:
>
>Language     Piece letters (pawn knight bishop rook queen king)
>----------   --------------------------------------------------
>Dutch        O P L T D K

>
>Odd Gunnar Malin

Odd, or Gunnar, or maybe Malin, this "O" in Dutch, where does it come from? I
never met it. I think it should be a space or something !? For instance, a pawn
move from e2 to e4 is written in Dutch as:

   e2-e4

or:

   e4

(or do I misunderstand your list ?)

Best wishes,

Andreas.



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