PART 2 • Abbreviations and symbols
Here's a short sample game you can use for practice
(which also happens to be the first game from
Chess King's GigaKing database):
1. e4 e5 2. f4 d6 3. Bc4 c6 4. Nf3 Bg4 5. fxe5 dxe5 6. Bxf7+ Kxf7 7.
Nxe5+ Ke8 8. Qxg4 Nf6 9. Qe6+ Qe7 10. Qc8+ Qd8
11. Qxd8+ Kxd8 12. Nf7+
• If you play through the moves correctly, you should arrive at the
following position after White's 12th move:
• Once you understand algebraic notation, you unlock a whole world
of chess possibilities. Vast amounts of chess literature in the form of
books and magazines become available at your beck and call. You'll
be able to read and play the chess games of great players of the past,
local masters in chess club newsletters, even the games of your friends
which they've written down. Best of all, you'll be able to write down the
moves of “live” games you play, and then add them to a Chess King
database later, where you can add your own notes to them or even
have Houdini analyze them!
• When you learn algebraic notation, you really do learn
a new language – the universal language of chess.
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