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Subject: Re: Chess piece abbreviations

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 15:59:47 06/24/01

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On June 24, 2001 at 18:33:57, Andreas De Troy wrote:

>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.

I’m very glad I get this question :)

The original question was where to find this letter codes, and the answer was in
the pgn 'standard.txt'. To let him use it right away I also made a copy of the
text. So the answer to your question is 'the pgn standard'.
By the way, in all language I have seen nobody use a letter for pawn in
notation. I think it’s also in the FIDE’s rules of chess.
Maybe you could tell us what a pawn is called in Dutch.

oddGM



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