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soheil_hooshdaran
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Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Tue Apr 03, 2018 7:24 pm

Hi.
What's the use of symbolic alhebraic otation. Doesn't it cause a newbie student to draw Queens/Rooks/knights.Bishops instead of writing Q/R/N/B during a chess game?

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Matt Mackenzie
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Post by Matt Mackenzie » Tue Apr 03, 2018 8:02 pm

Generally speaking that doesn't happen, no.
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Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Tue Apr 03, 2018 8:06 pm

But What's the use of it?

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Post by IM Jack Rudd » Tue Apr 03, 2018 8:18 pm

The use is that it is not specific to any particular language. This can be useful if you're publishing to a multi-lingual audience.

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Post by James Pratt » Wed Apr 04, 2018 7:48 pm

universality

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Post by Reg Clucas » Wed Apr 04, 2018 10:00 pm

Matt Mackenzie wrote:
Tue Apr 03, 2018 8:02 pm
Generally speaking that doesn't happen, no.
Though I remember a thread on this forum some time ago in which it was suggested that it should!