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For every Glinski's Hexagonal Chess game I see online the algebraic notation skips J for I K L. Why? What's wrong with J? enter image description here

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    I would err a lot on the side of avoiding confusion between i and j, which in some fonts can look identical, and since there's L too
    – Nicolas Formichella
    Commented Jan 3 at 13:36
  • Skipping j is common when using letters as list sequence identifiers. Some of the reason is visual, as others have mentioned. Some of the reason is historical: i and j used to be the same letter, and even when they separated, their order relative to each other varied. Some languages still don't distinguish them. See also chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/68251/…
    – L. Scott Johnson
    Commented Jun 18 at 17:30

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I had the same question a little while ago, and the most common answer I found was that the characters of "j" and "i" looked too similar and would often be used interchangeably, and become confusing for the players and the spectators.

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