Author: Andreas Stabel
Date: 07:44:47 11/30/01
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On November 30, 2001 at 10:13:58, Les Fernandez wrote: >In the following position can someone tell me how to properly represent the >capture of the black pawn on e4. It is white to move. Obviously we cant just >say "de" since we could be talking about the capture of the e5 pawn. Secondly >regarding pawns are their any other positions that exist that have other types >of ambiguities. > >[D]2k5/8/8/4p3/3Pp3/3P4/8/1K6 w - - > > >Thanks There is absolutely no ambiguity here because in the PGN/SAN standard you should always give the full destination square of a pawn move, so it should be dxe4. There is a possible ambiguity in the following position: [D]4k3/8/8/2pP4/3P4/8/8/4K3 w - c6 One should think that dxc5 is ambigous here, but the PGN/SAN standard states that the en passant capture of the c5 pawn should be given as dxc6 ! Best regards Andreas Stabel
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