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Subject: Re: Notation of e.p. move.

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 06:18:17 02/15/02

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On February 15, 2002 at 05:51:25, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote:

>I was strike by a notation bug. This was the promotion that in the pgn/Winboard
>should be noted with b8=Q and not as the fide standard b8Q.
>When I fixed this I also took a look on some other differences.
>In the FIDE standard when an enpassant move is made where should the check
>symbol be added. exd6 e.p.+ or exd6+ e.p. If you would speak the move the first
>sample looks best but on paper the second sample looks better.
>This isn't a problem in the PGN-standard because the e.p. abbreviation should
>not be added. I took a look on Fide's site but wasn't any wiser.
>
>Odd Gunnar

As far as I know, FIDE uses Short Algebraic Notation (SAN), and so promotions
are like "b8=Q" and en passant moves have no special notation: "exd6" is the
correct notation. Why do you want a check symbol? If it's a checking move, it
should be "exd6+".

/David



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