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Betza notation (extended). The powerful XBetza extension to Betza's funny notation.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Jun 16, 2020 05:36 AM UTC:

Apparently so; this was one of the things from the XBetza section that was also mentioned in the hidden more-about-a box in other wording, and when I amalgamated the two, and in response to your remark, I changed it to:

For instance, directions on continuation legs are always specified relative to the preceding leg, as we want the notation to specify moves of a fixed shape. Thus f should be read as "in the same direction", (e.g. mafF is a lame Alfil.) and fs as "deflected by 45 degrees left or right". This rotation of the frame of reference means that continuation legs always use the same system for specifying directions as the K atom: even for oblique and diagonal atoms f in a continuation leg only specifies a single move.