Editing Chessboard (section)

==Board notation==
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{{See also|Chess#Setup}}
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| A chessboard diagram with [[Algebraic notation (chess)|algebraic notation]], generally used for printing or computer displays. 
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There are various systems for recording moves and referring to the squares of the chessboard; the standard contemporary system is [[Algebraic notation (chess)|algebraic notation]]. In algebraic notation, the files are identified by the letters ''a'' to ''h'', from left to right from the white player's point of view, and the ranks by the numbers ''1'' to ''8'', with 1 being closest to the white player. Each square on the board is identified by a unique coordinate pairing, from a1 to h8.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Just |first1=Tim |last2=Burg |first2=Daniel B. |title=United States Chess Federation's Official Rules of Chess |date=2003|publisher=Random House Puzzles & Games |isbn=0-8129-3559-4 |page=227 |edition=Fifth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NTgfWTsAF6IC&q=The+guideline+for+determining+the+proper+square+size+for+a+Staunton+chess+set+is+that+the+king+should+occupy+around+78+percent+of+the&pg=PA227 |access-date=5 December 2014}}</ref>

In the older [[descriptive notation]], the files are labelled by the piece originally occupying its first rank (e.g. queen, {{chessgloss|king's rook}}, {{chessgloss|queen's bishop}}), and ranks by the numbers ''1'' to ''8'' from each player's point of view, depending on the move being described. This method is no longer commonly used. FIDE stopped using descriptive notation in 1981.

[[ICCF numeric notation]] assigns numbers to both files and ranks, with rank 1 being the one closest to the player with the white pieces. The file leftmost to the white player (''a'' in algebraic notation and ''QR'' in descriptive notation) is file one and the rightmost to them (''h'' in algebraic notation and ''KR'' in descriptive notation) is file eight.
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