On Friday, February 18, 2022 at 4:59:59 AM UTC+2, The Horny Goat wrote:
> Here's a question for all of you particularly the Americans.
>
> What kind of notation was predominantly used in the US in 1983? The
> point of my question is that that was the year Walter Tevis wrote The
> Queens Gambit and throughout the book (which was I think supposed to
> be taking place in the late 60s - which would make Beth Harmon about
> 5-7 years younger than Fischer - which was certainly in the
> descriptive era but I'm pretty sure my scoresheets from 1983-84 were
> in algebraic. Certainly by the late 80s both Chess Life and Inside
> Chess were algebraic (and the figurine algebraic used by Chess
> Informant had a large part to do with the switch and they started in
> 1965-66)
>
> (There's a section in the front of each Informant showing the standard
> symbols and descriptions in a dozen or so languages and to this day I
> remember ?? in Serbo-Croatian was 'gruba greska' which a Croatian
> fellow at the club taught us to say correctly)
>
> But Tevis wrote the Queens Gambit in 1983 so what notation would have
> been most common in the US at that time? (I watched the TV series when
> it came out but only finished the book earlier today)

Bs"d

How is the book?

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