Timeline for Why is the algebraic notation not just two numbers?
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| Apr 24, 2019 at 18:48 | answer | added | J McAdams | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 24, 2019 at 9:58 | answer | added | David | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 21, 2019 at 5:51 | comment | added | Rosie F | @Glorfindel And draughts notation is the worse for it. Rather than labelling each rank and each file, it labels each of the squares used. And international draughts uses a 10x10 board. It is much harder to understand which of the 32 or 50 black squares a number means, than which of 8 or 10 ranks or files a symbol means. | |
| Apr 20, 2019 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackChess/status/1119616849157738498 | ||
| Apr 20, 2019 at 9:15 | answer | added | CognisMantis | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 20, 2019 at 7:43 | comment | added | Glorfindel♦ | Draughts has a different notation, using only numbers. | |
| Apr 20, 2019 at 7:39 | comment | added | Scounged | One argument for the established notation is that it's much easier to distinguish between ranks and files if you denote ranks by numbers and files by letters. Also, it is easier to not write incorrect notation this way. Moreover, I don't believe that your suggestions would actually make anything simpler for beginners, since there is not really anything suggesting that it's easier to find '7'-file by eye-sight than it is to find 'g'-file by eye-sight. Recall that most people who are raised in a western nation are just as familiar with the latin alphabet as the arabic numerical system. | |
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| Apr 19, 2019 at 23:25 | history | asked | Clac | CC BY-SA 4.0 |