Re: how to read a chess game for beginner

In article <NyC*UeA6q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
David Richerby <davidr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Harold Buck <no_one_knows@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > David Richerby <davidr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> All modern books are published in algebraic. I strongly recommend
> >> teaching or learning that -- it's *much* more useful than descriptive
> >> and it really isn't difficult.
> >
> > How is it more "useful"? I agree it's much clearer and easier to
> > understand, but they both achieve the same purpose of recording the
> > moves.
>
> Of course both systems can record any possible move -- that's the whole
> point. But algebraic is more useful because, as I said, it's what modern
> books are written in. If you can't read algebraic, you can't read any
> book published in the last mumble years.


I guess I see what you're saying, although I don't necessarily agree
with your usage. It's not a more useful notation, it's just more useful
to know algebraic if you want to read chess books.

--Harold Buck


"Hubris always wins in the end. The Greeks taught us that."

-Homer J. Simpson
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