By convention White is moving “up” the board, and Black down. The square in the lower left (“White’s queen rook one” in descriptive notation) is a1, and the square in the upper right (“White’s king rook eight”) is h8. ...
King –K Queen –Q Rook –R Bishop –B Knight –N Pawn – no abbreviation when writing the move Chess notation for special moves In chess, there is also a category of special moves. Here we have the castle (both sides), as well as the en-passant. Next, we will talk about how we...
Chess King Software Tutorial #15: How to Print a Game to PDF in Chess King You will learn how to print your game to PDF with diagrams and variations. Learn how to add a diagram to your notation. (direct link). (back to top) Chess King Software Tutorial #16: Import Databases into ...
Castling is indicated by the special notations 0-0 for kingside castling and 0-0-0 for queenside castling. An en passant capture is sometimes marked with the notation "e.p." A move that places the opponent's king in check usually has the notation "+" added. (The notation "++" for ...
White has just played Rd1#, checkmating the black king.Permitted movesWhite starts with the king on the first rank to the right of the queen. Black starts with the king directly across from the white king. With the squares labeled as in algebraic notation, the white king starts on e1 ...
Game notation A move can be recorded by designating the initial of the piece moved and the square to which it moves. For example, Be5 means a bishop has moved to e5. There are two exceptions: a knight is identified by N, and no initials are used for pawn moves. For example, 1 e4...
I found two short documents, apparently from a Georgian chess body of some sort, which seemed to list a few isolated moves - using the opposite notation of Mp for the King and M for the Knight. This was good, but because it wasn't a complete game score, I felt there was a chance ...
Chess notation is the term for several systems that have developed to record either the moves made during a game of chess or the position of the pieces on a chess board. The earliest systems of notation used lengthy narratives to describe each move; these gradually evolved into terser systems...
xxviChess Notationbishop, queen, king, bishop, knight, and roo k. The first rank pieces are white and the eighth rank pieces are black. The player with the white pieces is referred to as White, and the player with the black pieces, Black. a b c d e f g h The starting chessboard,...
♚ K (King) ♛ Q (Queen) ♜ R (Rook) ♝ B (Bishop) ♞ N (Knight) ♙ (Pawn – lack of the letter symbol) How to use chess notation? If you want to describe to another chess player the current situation on the board, and you can see that the white king has moved to...