algebraic notation

noun

1. 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

Example Sentences

Then you can just use standard algebraic notation to move your pieces, prefacing every instruction with the command "@fbchess."

From The Verge

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Time Magazine Archive

This algebraic notation shows that there is, not two, but only one thought in the antithesis; that it is made up of a thought and its expressed limit; and, therefore, that the so-called “law of contradictories” does not concern contradictories at all, in pure logic.

From Project Gutenberg

In division, what is called the Italian method of arranging the divisor and quotient, appears to be preferable to the common one, as it places them in such a manner as to be easily multiplied by each other, and as it agrees with algebraic notation.

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