Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)
Date: 21:48:29 08/24/99
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On August 24, 1999 at 17:23:38, Zachariah Amela wrote: >In the "olden" days I recall a standard notation that called telecommunications >notation. The other name was Eudman or Eudmmans, or something. > >Any way, a transmission string was comprised of four alpha charaters. These >characters designated where the piece started the move from and where it >completed the move too. I don't know what this notation was used for other the >"distance" play. > >I'm just curios. I havent' heard or seen anything in years. A web search >yielded nothing as well. In one of my old FIDE books I thought it mentioned >it....but I could be in error. > >Thanks!! I've seen a code like this a couple of times. The first time, a long time ago, I remember it, as you do, for chess over telegraph, or something. The ExaChess software (www.exachess.com - freeware version is ExaChess Lite 2.02) calls this notation "Postal", or "International Postal notation". For one thing, it gets around the issue of different nations using different letters for the pieces - the freeware program Sigma Chess 4.02 Lite supports 17 different national sets, and many other programs (e.g., HIARCS) let you just enter a string defining which character should be used for which piece. The documentation says: • Standard . This is standard short algebraic notation: 1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Qxd5 3 Nc3 Qa5. • Postal . This is International Postal notation: 1.5254 4745 2.5445 4845 3.7163 4515 • Descriptive . This is standard English descriptive notation: 1 P-K4 P-Q4 2 PxP QxP 3 N-QB3 Q-QR4. • Compact . This is the same as Standard, except that pawn captures are shown in the style 'ed' rather than 'exd5': 1 e4 d5 2 ed Qxd5 3 Nc3 Qa5. • Informant . This is the same as Standard, except that captures are shown without a 'x': 1 e4 d5 2 ed5 Qd5 3 Nc3 Qa5. • Full . This is long algebraic: 1 e2-e4 d7-d5 2 e4xd5 Qd8xd5 3 Nb1-c3 Qd5-a5. Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com) http://directory.mozilla.org/Games/Board_Games/Chess/Software/Macintosh/
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