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Subject: Re: Chess Notation someone explain this so i set these up in the future

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 08:36:05 12/18/99

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On December 18, 1999 at 10:50:04, Joshua Lee wrote:

>4b3/1r4k1/p3pr2/1p1pPp2/PPpP1Pp1/2P3Pp/K6P/8 w - - 0 1
>8/8/8/8/2R1k3/2K5/1P6/3r4 b - - 0 1
>
>I was just wondering what this means, how am i supposed to figure out where
>which piece goes?
>maybe i am just not looking at this objectively but wouldn't it be easier to
>just say:
>example
>Black pawns a2  e7, K e4, r a3   etc???
>  thankyou

The numbers sre empty squares, the / are the end of the rows (rank), as I recall
the Crafty.doc file has a  good explanation of the whole process.

And no, it's better to do it this way, it's just not real easy for people to
read, but very posible.

Pete



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