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Betza Notation. A primer on the leading shorthand for describing variant piece moves.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Greg Strong wrote on Wed, Oct 16, 2013 11:42 PM UTC:
Excellent work on all of this.  At first I was skeptical you would be able to encode this much information in a Betza-like string, but after reading this (and your plans for algorithmic interpretation on TalkChess) I'm becoming a believer.

The only change that would make me happy would be to change the standard atoms for camel and zebra to 'C' and 'Z' (a transition that I think most everyone has made anyway.)  L and J can be synonyms, but as long as an updated standard is being published anyway ...