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Subject: Re: Start your engines - EP Notation

Author: John Merlino

Date: 14:57:38 04/29/04

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On April 29, 2004 at 15:12:16, Pat King wrote:

>On April 28, 2004 at 18:09:50, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>On April 28, 2004 at 17:53:17, Pat King wrote:
>>
>>>Zotron also chokes on 'b3' in the
>>>en passant field of the EPD, preferring 'b4'. Which is correct, b3 or b4?
>>>
>>>Pat King
>>
>>b3 is correct. The protocol says to use the capture square. So, for example,
>>here is the correct FEN after 1.e4:
>>
>>rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR b KQkq e3 0 1
>>
>>jm
>
>But the pawn being captured is on e4... guess that's why I took it to be the
>'capture square'.

And yet how would the move be annotated in Algebraic notation? 'dxe3ep'.

jm



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