algebraic notation

British

noun

chess the standard method of denoting the squares on the chessboard, by allotting a letter, a, b, c, up to h, to each of the files running up the board from White's side, starting from the left, and a number to each of the ranks across the board, starting with White's first rank

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Before we get to it, we need to introduce some algebraic notation.

From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020

We will also begin our use of algebraic notation and vocabulary.

From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020

All this opens the way to very early algebraic notation, at first using squares and triangles as symbols.

From Time Magazine Archive

A more modern notation is the algebraic notation, which has been adopted in most countries.

From Chess Strategy by Du Mont, J.

Our ideas are simply the algebraic notation of our impressions and movements.

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Sabatier, Auguste

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