Kevin Pacey wrote on Sat, Dec 17, 2022 05:20 PM UTC:
For one source, here's a wiki on Betza notation that may help. The most complicated stuff can be ignored by those not yet eager to get into the most theoretical aspects of chess variants, in my humble opinion.
For example, useful to everyone early on is knowing that A stands for the leaper Alfil (a fairly weak piece normally, that has a very long history) - then (2,2) means it leaps 2 cells diagonally in any direction on a board, either moving to an empty cell or capturing an enemy piece on that cell:
For one source, here's a wiki on Betza notation that may help. The most complicated stuff can be ignored by those not yet eager to get into the most theoretical aspects of chess variants, in my humble opinion.
For example, useful to everyone early on is knowing that A stands for the leaper Alfil (a fairly weak piece normally, that has a very long history) - then (2,2) means it leaps 2 cells diagonally in any direction on a board, either moving to an empty cell or capturing an enemy piece on that cell:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betza%27s_funny_notation#:~:text=Betza%20notation%20is%20used%20in,actual%20notation%20for%20the%20piece.