Editing Chess notation (section)

==History==
[[Image:ChessOldDN.jpg|right|thumb|280px|Page from 1841 ''[[Chess Player's Chronicle]]''. In modern algebraic notation, this would be written as 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Bc5 3.b4 Bxb4 4.f4 d5 5.exd5 Nf6 6.fxe5 Nxd5 7.Nf3 Bg4 8.0-0 0-0 9.c3 Ba5 10.Ba3 Re8 11.Qb3 Bxf3 12.Rxf3 Bb6+ 13.d4 Rxe5 14.Nd2 Nc6 15.Kh1 Na5 16.Qc2 Nxc4 17.Nxc4 Rh5 18.Ne5 Nxc3 19.Nxf7 Qxd4 20.Rg1 c5 21.Rxc3 Bc7 22.h3 b6 23.Rf3 Qd5 24.Bb2 g5 25.Qc3 Qd4 26.Qb3 c4 27.Qb4 Qc5 28.Qc3 Be5 29.Nxe5 {{chessAN|1–0}}

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The notation for chess moves evolved slowly, as these examples show. The last is in [[algebraic chess notation]]; the others show the evolution of [[descriptive chess notation]] and use spelling and notation of the period.
:{{em|1614:}} {{pad|2}}The white king commands his owne knight into the third house before his owne bishop.

:{{em|1750:}} {{pad|2}}K. knight to His Bishop's 3d.

:{{em|1837:}} {{pad|2}}K.Kt. to B.third sq.

:{{em|1848:}} {{pad|2}}K.Kt. to B's 3rd.

:{{em|1859:}} {{pad|2}}K. Kt. to B. 3d.

:{{em|1874:}} {{pad|2}}K Kt to B3

:{{em|1889:}} {{pad|2}}KKt-B3

:{{em|1904:}} {{pad|2}}Kt-KB3

:{{em|1946:}} {{pad|2}}N-KB3

:{{em|Modern:}} {{pad|2}}Nf3<ref>
{{cite book
 |editor-first=Robert John |editor-last=McCrary
 |title=The Hall-of-Fame History of U.S. Chess
 |volume=1 |pages=14–15
}}{{full citation needed|date=May 2021|reason=Needs date, publisher, & place of publication or a web address where the document is posted.}}
</ref>

A text from [[Shakespeare]]'s time uses complete sentences to describe moves, for example, "Then the black king for his second draught brings forth his queene, and placest her in the third house, in front of his bishop's pawne", which nowadays would be written simply as 2...Qf6.<ref>
{{cite book
 |first=Arthur |last=Saul
 |year=1614
 |title=The famous game of Chesse-play, Truely discouered, and all doubts resolued
 |quote=So that by reading this small Booke thou shalt profit more then[sic] by the playing a thousand Mates. An Exercise full of delight; fit for Princes, or any person of what qualitie soeuer.
 |place=London, UK
 |publisher=A.S. Gent
 |url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A11524.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext
 |via=[[University of Michigan]]  |url-status=live  |access-date=2017-06-29
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180504185509/https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A11524.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext
 |archive-date=2018-05-04
}}
</ref> The great 18th-century player [[François-André Danican Philidor|Philidor]] used an almost equally verbose approach in his influential book ''Analyse du jeu des Échecs'', for example, "The king's bishop, at his queen bishop's fourth square."<ref>
{{cite book
 |first=François-André Danican |last=Philidor
 |orig-year=1777 |year=2005
 |title=Analyse du jeu des Échecs
 |trans-title=Analysis of the Game of Chess
 |edition=reprint, translated |page=2
 |publisher=Hardinge Simpole
}}
</ref>

[[Algebraic chess notation]] was first used by [[Philipp Stamma]] ({{circa|1705–1755}}) in an almost fully developed form, before the now-obsolete [[descriptive chess notation]] evolved. The main difference between Stamma's system and the modern system is that Stamma used "p" for pawn moves and the original {{chessgloss|file}} of the piece ("a" through "h") instead of the initial letter of the piece.<ref>
{{cite book
 |last=Davidson |first=Henry
 |year=1981 |orig-year=1949
 |title=A Short History of Chess
 |pages=152–53
 |publisher=McKay
 |isbn=0-679-14550-8
}}
</ref>
In London in 1747, Philidor convincingly defeated Stamma in a match. Consequently, his writings (which were translated into English) became more influential than Stamma's in the English-speaking chess world; this may have led to the adoption of a descriptive system for writing chess moves, rather than Stamma's coordinate-based approach. However, algebraic notation became popular in Europe following its adoption by the highly influential ''[[Handbuch des Schachspiels]]'', and became dominant in Europe during the 20th&nbsp;century. It did not become popular in the English-speaking countries, however, until the 1970s.<ref name="McCraryHistoryOfNotation">
{{cite web
 |last=McCrary |first=R.J. 
 |title=The History of Chess Notation 
 |url=http://www.chessmuseum.org/history_article11.htm 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704054703/http://www.chessmuseum.org/history_article11.htm 
 |archive-date=2008-07-04 
}}
</ref>