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Subj:
Rookie
Date:
Date: 6/5/2003 9:52:52 PM Mountain Daylight Time
From: Luis
To:
service@chess-poster.com
Hello,
I have a doubt about Chess and would
like to know if you can help me with a question.
I've just started to play and I have
seen the commented
games in your page. I have tried to
understand the notation in the games. I'd like to follow the games
notations but I just can't get it.
For example:
“Black doesn't dare to take the Pawn.
If 45... Rxg7 46. Rxg7 Kxg7 47. Kxd5 Kf7 48. Kd6 Ke8 49. Kc7 Ke7
50. d5, and the Pawn cannot be stopped.”
The only thing that is clear to me is that
“45...” refers to the move number 45
(I think). But what I do not understand is why
“K” x
“g7” means
if the board has only a, b, c, d, e, f, g and h letters.
Well, the truth is
that I know almost nothing about this notation. I will
appreciate very much if you can explain in detail this matter.
Greetings
and thank you for your website.
chess-poster.com
Dear
Luis,
Kxg7 refers to
“King
captures the piece on square g7.”
On this type of notation, the pieces are named after the first
letter of their own name.
The Chess pieces are written in uppercase letters:
King______________K
Queen____________Q
Rook_____________R
Bishop____________B
Knight____________N
Pawn_____________P
The squares are always written in lowercase letters and numbers:
a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h / 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
Thus, Nxc4 means
“The
Knight captures the piece located on c4”
and Nc4 means
“The
Knight moves to c4 square.”
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