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Punctuation in chess notation
As most of you will know, moves in a chess game are sometimes annotated with ?s and !s and many other signs. ? means a bad move and ! is a good move.
This used to lead to some confusion, for example, "I suddenly had a great idea, why not play 32.Rg4?" Here the reader may be puzzled for a while; was 32.Rg4 a good move or a bad move or just a move?
Recent chess publications have tried to solve the problem, quite cleverly, with double punctuation:
"White now played 12.exd5?."
The full stop marks the end of the sentence. Anything previous to that is 'in the sentence'.
The sentence "I suddenly had a great idea, why not play 32.Rg4?" stays the same, but usage should immediately tell one that the last ? marks the sentence as a question and is not marking the move as bad.
It can go wrong. In a recent book I saw something like this: "Without this I would have finished last!."
This used to lead to some confusion, for example, "I suddenly had a great idea, why not play 32.Rg4?" Here the reader may be puzzled for a while; was 32.Rg4 a good move or a bad move or just a move?
Recent chess publications have tried to solve the problem, quite cleverly, with double punctuation:
"White now played 12.exd5?."
The full stop marks the end of the sentence. Anything previous to that is 'in the sentence'.
The sentence "I suddenly had a great idea, why not play 32.Rg4?" stays the same, but usage should immediately tell one that the last ? marks the sentence as a question and is not marking the move as bad.
It can go wrong. In a recent book I saw something like this: "Without this I would have finished last!."
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s and many ... " The full stop marks the end of the sentence. [/nq] I hit on the same solution for my own chess writing some years ago.
- s and many ...
- " The full stop marks the end of the sentence.
- [/nq] I hit on the same solution for my own chess writing some years ago.
- However, it won't always work.
- " stays the same, but usage should immediately tell one that the last ?
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[nq:1]As most of you will know, moves in a chess game are sometimes annotated with ?s and !s and many ... now played 12.exd5?." The full stop marks the end of the sentence. Anything previous to that is 'in the sentence'.[/nq]
I hit on the same solution for my own chess writing some years ago. However, it won't always work.
[nq:1]The sentence "I suddenly had a great idea, why not play 32.Rg
I hit on the same solution for my own chess writing some years ago. However, it won't always work.
[nq:1]The sentence "I suddenly had a great idea, why not play 32.Rg
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