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Letter 31 - 2012
Sub:
A doubt
Date:
08/21/12 11:06:22 AM
EDT
From: J. Luis Granero (Spain)
To:
service@chess-poster.com
Good afternoon,
Could you tell me how the check
and checkmate moves used to be annotated in the seventeenth century? (1600).
I believe it would be different
from our current plus (+) and pound (#) signs.
Thank you.
Jose Luis Granero
Dear visitor,
Old Chess notation
were as follows:
+ =
Check, ch.
# = Mate, Mates.
0-0 = Castles K.R.
0-0-0 = Castles Q.R.
N = Kt.
QxB = Q. takes B.
The following is a game illustrating
old notation:
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visiting us,
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