Editing Chess notation (section)

====Rutherford code====
This code was invented in 1880 by Sir [[William Watson Rutherford]] (1853–1927).  At the time, the British Post Office did not allow digits or [[cipher]]s in telegrams, but they did allow Latin words.  This method also allowed moves for two games to be transmitted at the same time.  In this method, the legal moves in the position were counted using a system until the move being made was reached. This was done for both games.  The move number of the first game was multiplied by 60 and added to the move number of the second game.  Leading zeros were added as necessary to give a four-digit number.  The first two digits would be 00 through 39, which corresponded to a table of 40 Latin roots.  The third digit corresponded to a list of 10 Latin prefixes and the last digit corresponded to a list of 10 Latin suffixes.  The resulting word was transmitted.

After rules were changed so that ciphers were allowed in telegrams, this system was replaced by the Gringmuth Notation.<ref name="Hooper" />