PART 2 • Learn the “universal language” of chess
Because people who speak different languages call the
chessmen by different names, it's become increasingly
common in “languageless” chess books and in chess
software to use figurine algebraic notation, in which the piece
abbreviations are replaced by tiny pictures of the chess
pieces (known as “figurines”, hence the name). This is the
type of notation used on your screen in Chess King, and
you should have no problem determining which figurines
correspond to which pieces. As with “letter” notation, the lack
of a figurine means that the move was made by a pawn.
• You might occasionally see a form of notation which gives both
the starting and destination squares as part of the written form. As
examples, the Knight move two diagrams ago might be written as
“Ne2-d4”, while the pawn move above would be written as “e2-e4”.
This is sometimes called “computer algebraic notation” and, while more
precise, it's not used as often.
• But there will be times when you're using regular algebraic notation
when more than one of the same piece could move to a particular
square. Take this position, for instance:
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