A professional approach to the battle boards needs proper understanding of the various aspects of the game.In a very formal game its compulsory that we should mark the moves and this is called notating the moves. There are a number of chess notations, of which algebraic notation is the one very commonly used.Eventhough there are other notations like reversible algebraic, figurine algebraic, smith, descriptive etc FIDE, the international chess federation is currently promoting the algebraic notation only.Now the need of noting down is to record a game of chess, as its very dynamic recording the game will help you replay your game, and reuse your strategies and tactics. A replay will help you improve your game. An algebraic notation avoids the starting position of the piece, and uses a certain designated english alphabets for each of the pieces.The picture below describes it well, an exception is pawn, which has no special notation. If a move is shown without any of those capital alphabets then its pawn’s move.

The table shows very a battle board game in which only a few moves are shown just to elaborate on the various notations. “e4″ means white pawn at e2 moves to e4. “e5″ means black pawn at e7 moves to e5. The move written as 0-0 is a special move “Castling King side”. If the King castles on the queenside it would be written as 0-0-0. The noted as “d5″ means the black pawn at d7 moves to d5.“exd5″ is another special move denoting a piece capture, here it is a white pawn capturing a black piece located at d5.“dxc1=Q” is yet another special notation denoting a black pawn(d2) captures a piece at c1 and the pawn gets transformed into a Queen.“Bxc6+” means white bishop captures a piece at c6, and the plus sign means the movement resulted in a “check” to the black king. “d4++” indicates the movement of a black pawn to d4 square and the “++” sign indicates that white lose the game, the d4 movement resulted in a checkmate.

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