How to Use Chess Notation _ Chess

Hi , my name is Rebecca Taxman with chess NYC .

And I'm gonna show you how to quickly use and write down chess notation .

So to start , we have our white side and our black side .

It is important that as a chess player that you can , you write down both moves , both white and black .

If you just write down your moves , not gonna be so helpful .

So let's start first move .

Let's say white makes is E four .

Now we don't write pawn E four .

We just write E with a lower case letter as we can see here four by riding E four , we know that its a pawn has been moved .

Now let's say black makes a move and it goes , they go E five .

So we write E five .

Say the next move that white makes is knight F three .

So now we need to use our capital N F three and let's say black goes night C six .

So N C six .

Now let's say white brings out its bishop , bishop B five .

And you notice here how I have a capital B for the bishop , a lower case B for the square .

And then the number for this square .

Black then proceeds and plays night F six night F six .

Now I know that this night didn't go to F six and that it's this night because this night cannot go to F six .

So I don't have to worry about which night I'm moving in this case .

Now , let's say white decides to capture .

So we would have bishop captures night C six and then black decides to capture back .

So we instead of writing pawn because he has to capture back with the pawn , we would write D seven captures bishop C six .

And then that is shown by this .

Now let's move down .

A couple of moves , a bunch of moves have been played and it is now black , white decides to castle .

So white decides to castle kings side to show that we do 0-0 .

And now black has a choice .

Black can either decide to castle kings side or queen side .

So let's say black decides to castle queens side again .

We move the king two spaces 12 , bring the king rook to the other side and we show that by 0-0 dash zero .

Now let's proceed .

We moved a bunch of moves forward and there's pieces that are taken off the board .

Lots of things happened .

And let's say now white is ready to bring its pawn to the other side and promote to a queen .

White decides to go F eight becoming a queen and it is a check .

So let's figure out how to write that we have our pawn , which goes back , moved from F seven moves to F eight equals Q for queen .

And since it is a check , we put a plus sign for check .

This game is far from over .

But these are just the quick basics on how to record your chest notation .