Put me down as one who helped accelerate the decline. As a schoolboy, I sometimes wrote moves like N-Kt5 just to be different.Roger Lancaster wrote: ↑Wed May 09, 2018 9:24 amI can only sympathise with Michael and Kevin on the evident decline in English chess standards.
A fellow team-member used to employ his own set of initials for the pieces (B = "Building" = rook; C = "Clergyman" = bishop, etc).