Why they're in this lecture, I'd like to take you through algebraic notation.
This is the standard way of rotating games to say we want to move a ball from 84.
In fact, for --'s we can abbreviate as just 84.
You can see one E4 here.
And so they play C 75 to C five.
And that's the first move E 45.
These two 1/2 moves in computer terminology are called playing p l y, but two planes or half make a
move and the second move is numbered to two nights and free and is for night not K and say 96 and say
94 d2 to the four we can see the notation building up C takes the four.
X denotes a small extra zone to capture.
If you look on that right hand column.
Right.
And Column X is denoting a capture.
And we can have nights and take different night of six nights, see free, he says.
Now, what if one of these nights goes to be fun?
Let's watch what happens.
Look at this night's deemed to be fireworks qualified by that little D..
There's the night on the defo.
If we use the other one, it will be night.
See B5.
Look at that.
It qualifies which nights.
So neutze in particular quite often need to be qualified, unlike bishops, because bishops are not
using the same moves on a different color, like different sides of the road.
The bishops.
So we can build up a game.
And let's go into let's say we don't do that.
Let's say we instead play Bishop Itoh.
So Bishop is B, Bishop is seven.
And we also look.
Oh, dash.
Oh.
Or rather not that oh zero dash zero is counseling, and if that was going to counsel Queensland, say,
Desex Bishop every bishop D7 and let's say queen bee to queen C7 81 one qualifying the rook.
If it was the other, OK, it would be Rook 51.
So get the hang of qualifying the same type of piece going to the same square.
That's the kind of downside of this concise notation.
Sometimes you have to quantify the piece and if it was like four different rooks, you know, imagine
there was no rook here which could go to the one you'd have to then say Rook on D four to the one as
a fictional example so you could use the whole start square just to make sure it's disambiguate it.
So anyway, let's say Black Castle Queen side, it will be o o o or zero zero zero.
If you're writing it down on scoresheet, it doesn't really make a big deal if you use O or Xeros.
So here, this looks more like.
A zero.
OK, so all these other special moves, if the opponent offers you a draw, you put that move and you
put open brackets equals close bracket.
If they offered you a draw, you know, so if they played that move, an offer you draw, you have to
record it nowadays on the scoresheet.
It's a new rule generally, especially if it's a field agent.
You put open brackets equals close bracket.
This could help track of help keep track of annoying draw offerers who may be trying to distract you,
offering a draw every move.
So that's that's great to know.
Take that to record that on the score sheet.
That's good for your own protection just in case your opponent's trying to distract you.
Repeated drawer offers.
So no take the drawer offers as well.
If your opponent resigns, then you end the scoresheet with if we're winning and the opponent just resigned,
we put one dash there to indicate that white wins or if the opponents won, we put no dash, one of
which is a draw.
We just put half dash half.
So this is a little tougher.
Now let's have a look at a pawn promotion example.
Let's do a crazy game where the opponents play in a strange way and let's do this for fun.
So G-7 and we're about to promote, you know, to a queen here.
Yeah.
To say they did this, we aim to promote to a queen.
Let's have a look at the invitation.
G8 equals Q saying when you do a -- promotion, it's like you can't do this or you can put giants
open brackets.
Q On your scoresheet, usually it's over makins.
Q So this is not strict notation for human notation here.
OK, so you put normally in books as J Hautamäki Q plus back and say we took on HLN, Jane G takes eight
equals.
Q But say we did another piece say rook it just equals or open bracket or close bracket so we can even
handle pawn promotions.
I checkmates let let's say the opponent did this, we can actually play this here.
It's got a plus and that's just indicating check.
That's not correct.
And in reality you know takes it with a hash.
Now hashes are not computer friendly, so there's a slight difference in computer notation.
But if it was a real scoresheet, you just got hash to indicate checkmate.
So those are the symbols you'd really use.
Aren't there harsh meaning checkmate, so you've got all the equipment needed to record a game, so
key things to point out emphasized disambiguate, late night, some rook's, sometimes they're going
to be exactly the same places.
So there's a skill in disambiguate.
Yeah.
So when you're recording a game, make sure you specify which night, if if there's two nights going
to the same place.
And so we moved the night here, which tonight goes to Africa, we have to disambiguate tonight, Jeoffrey,
all night, d'Afrique disambiguate.
So that's the important key skill when notating in this very concise loverly format.
In my view, algebraic notation used to be very, very long winded in the old days, like --'s looking
for its relative.
It's had some downsides.
You know, it's much more elaborate now.
We just e4 it's very concise.
C5 or C6.
It's very, very concise.
I love this abbreviated algebraic notation, but you need to know the special things.
You need to also record Drewes nowadays if it's a real world game and record the draw offers with open
mic equal.
So yes, some key points to mind.
Kosslyn Kingslake hosting Queen Side.
If you want to use an overview, I don't think you'd be in trouble.
Cheque's, you know, plus Chappellet hash.
So you've got all you need at the end of the scoresheet.
Right at the end you have deponent resigns one national if you're playing whites, if black wins, it's
not that one.
So yeah, black wins.
It's not that one.
If it's a draw, it's half that dash off, you know.
So as you can see that you split the point.
So I hope that's pretty clear algebraic notation for recording your games and try and be as legible
as possible.
That's also, you know, you should be as legend as possible.
And in a professional tournament, both of these, you get your opponent to sign at the end of the game,
you're one and you sign the opponents and you both hands in a copy.
There's a carbon copy quite often the hand into some controllers.
So you actually keep the lesser copy, the less a marked copy.
So you just get the carbon copy and you give the most legible scoresheet to the controllers.
And they sometimes put the games into a database.
After all, they just use it preparing or or both.
So yes, recording games, you're contributing to that central chess database that everyone can see
each other's games from all around the world as a result.
What a lovely age of information technology and information sharing that we have.
And this is what chess is thriving on the Internet.
It's a natural as an informational game for sharing the game very concisely with this beautiful, beautiful,
concise notation.
So I hope you're as excited as me to start using algebraic notation.
And then you can also study your games when you get home.
You can play for as long as you've done it legibly.
Make sure you've done it legibly.
And bear in mind one issue I have sometimes in stressful situations like when I'm alone time the legibility
goes down and that can be really, really sad.
You don't want to miss out on recording those moments.
So in the last five minutes, by the way, if you're down to less than five minutes, you don't have
to record.
Yeah, the fryday rules.
You don't actually have to try and get someone else to record, ideally, if there is someone else to
record the final moves.
But yeah, when you're down to five minutes, you don't have to record.
You end up just as losing on time without being able to play the position.
You had the record.
So, yeah, there are some special rules, which I hope you've checked out the feeding handbook as recommended,
an early election.
Check out the Friday rules handbook as well.
But notation.
Yeah, it's a lovely thing.
And that's a study on games.
I remember when you lose guys and you're in pain, try and make it more of a scientific experiment.
Change it from a sporting event to a scientific event.
Go home, do your post-mortem scientific analysis, make it a science experiments, try and draw conclusions,
try and learn patterns.
Try and see what you missed out on.
Try and see what you could do better.
The scoresheet, the notation is vital for all this.
This is your score of the game that you can use to improve for your future battles.
So bear that in mind.
OK, thanks so much.