WEBVTT 00:01.220 --> 00:05.240 Why they're in this lecture, I'd like to take you through algebraic notation. 00:05.270 --> 00:10.520 This is the standard way of rotating games to say we want to move a ball from 84. 00:10.520 --> 00:13.990 In fact, for --'s we can abbreviate as just 84. 00:14.480 --> 00:16.520 You can see one E4 here. 00:16.890 --> 00:19.850 And so they play C 75 to C five. 00:19.850 --> 00:22.370 And that's the first move E 45. 00:22.820 --> 00:31.160 These two 1/2 moves in computer terminology are called playing p l y, but two planes or half make a 00:31.160 --> 00:40.340 move and the second move is numbered to two nights and free and is for night not K and say 96 and say 00:40.340 --> 00:46.130 94 d2 to the four we can see the notation building up C takes the four. 00:46.460 --> 00:49.180 X denotes a small extra zone to capture. 00:49.490 --> 00:51.170 If you look on that right hand column. 00:53.090 --> 00:53.330 Right. 00:53.330 --> 00:57.470 And Column X is denoting a capture. 00:59.760 --> 01:08.160 And we can have nights and take different night of six nights, see free, he says. 01:08.190 --> 01:10.700 Now, what if one of these nights goes to be fun? 01:10.710 --> 01:11.910 Let's watch what happens. 01:12.750 --> 01:17.030 Look at this night's deemed to be fireworks qualified by that little D.. 01:17.340 --> 01:18.930 There's the night on the defo. 01:19.770 --> 01:22.770 If we use the other one, it will be night. 01:22.790 --> 01:23.870 See B5. 01:23.880 --> 01:24.390 Look at that. 01:25.080 --> 01:26.850 It qualifies which nights. 01:27.210 --> 01:32.940 So neutze in particular quite often need to be qualified, unlike bishops, because bishops are not 01:32.940 --> 01:36.300 using the same moves on a different color, like different sides of the road. 01:36.300 --> 01:36.900 The bishops. 01:37.710 --> 01:39.210 So we can build up a game. 01:39.210 --> 01:43.590 And let's go into let's say we don't do that. 01:43.590 --> 01:47.480 Let's say we instead play Bishop Itoh. 01:47.490 --> 01:50.280 So Bishop is B, Bishop is seven. 01:50.550 --> 01:52.110 And we also look. 01:52.230 --> 01:53.070 Oh, dash. 01:53.070 --> 01:53.550 Oh. 01:55.870 --> 02:04.630 Or rather not that oh zero dash zero is counseling, and if that was going to counsel Queensland, say, 02:04.630 --> 02:15.490 Desex Bishop every bishop D7 and let's say queen bee to queen C7 81 one qualifying the rook. 02:15.700 --> 02:18.250 If it was the other, OK, it would be Rook 51. 02:18.640 --> 02:23.670 So get the hang of qualifying the same type of piece going to the same square. 02:24.940 --> 02:27.840 That's the kind of downside of this concise notation. 02:27.850 --> 02:34.510 Sometimes you have to quantify the piece and if it was like four different rooks, you know, imagine 02:34.510 --> 02:42.160 there was no rook here which could go to the one you'd have to then say Rook on D four to the one as 02:42.160 --> 02:47.970 a fictional example so you could use the whole start square just to make sure it's disambiguate it. 02:48.730 --> 02:54.930 So anyway, let's say Black Castle Queen side, it will be o o o or zero zero zero. 02:55.330 --> 03:01.990 If you're writing it down on scoresheet, it doesn't really make a big deal if you use O or Xeros. 03:04.280 --> 03:06.080 So here, this looks more like. 03:09.180 --> 03:09.870 A zero. 03:11.730 --> 03:18.810 OK, so all these other special moves, if the opponent offers you a draw, you put that move and you 03:18.810 --> 03:21.090 put open brackets equals close bracket. 03:21.090 --> 03:25.440 If they offered you a draw, you know, so if they played that move, an offer you draw, you have to 03:25.440 --> 03:27.720 record it nowadays on the scoresheet. 03:28.140 --> 03:31.000 It's a new rule generally, especially if it's a field agent. 03:31.110 --> 03:33.620 You put open brackets equals close bracket. 03:33.990 --> 03:38.970 This could help track of help keep track of annoying draw offerers who may be trying to distract you, 03:38.970 --> 03:40.040 offering a draw every move. 03:40.350 --> 03:41.910 So that's that's great to know. 03:41.910 --> 03:44.700 Take that to record that on the score sheet. 03:44.700 --> 03:48.990 That's good for your own protection just in case your opponent's trying to distract you. 03:48.990 --> 03:50.010 Repeated drawer offers. 03:50.340 --> 03:52.200 So no take the drawer offers as well. 03:54.330 --> 04:01.440 If your opponent resigns, then you end the scoresheet with if we're winning and the opponent just resigned, 04:01.440 --> 04:09.200 we put one dash there to indicate that white wins or if the opponents won, we put no dash, one of 04:09.270 --> 04:11.070 which is a draw. 04:11.460 --> 04:13.260 We just put half dash half. 04:14.010 --> 04:16.290 So this is a little tougher. 04:16.300 --> 04:18.990 Now let's have a look at a pawn promotion example. 04:21.630 --> 04:29.850 Let's do a crazy game where the opponents play in a strange way and let's do this for fun. 04:30.030 --> 04:35.010 So G-7 and we're about to promote, you know, to a queen here. 04:35.610 --> 04:36.060 Yeah. 04:36.700 --> 04:39.780 To say they did this, we aim to promote to a queen. 04:39.780 --> 04:41.010 Let's have a look at the invitation. 04:41.010 --> 04:52.830 G8 equals Q saying when you do a -- promotion, it's like you can't do this or you can put giants 04:52.860 --> 04:53.790 open brackets. 04:53.910 --> 04:57.510 Q On your scoresheet, usually it's over makins. 04:57.510 --> 05:03.030 Q So this is not strict notation for human notation here. 05:03.720 --> 05:17.760 OK, so you put normally in books as J Hautamäki Q plus back and say we took on HLN, Jane G takes eight 05:17.940 --> 05:18.390 equals. 05:18.390 --> 05:29.490 Q But say we did another piece say rook it just equals or open bracket or close bracket so we can even 05:29.490 --> 05:30.870 handle pawn promotions. 05:31.650 --> 05:37.920 I checkmates let let's say the opponent did this, we can actually play this here. 05:38.100 --> 05:40.050 It's got a plus and that's just indicating check. 05:40.050 --> 05:40.920 That's not correct. 05:41.340 --> 05:44.340 And in reality you know takes it with a hash. 05:45.810 --> 05:49.740 Now hashes are not computer friendly, so there's a slight difference in computer notation. 05:49.950 --> 05:54.150 But if it was a real scoresheet, you just got hash to indicate checkmate. 05:55.020 --> 05:56.760 So those are the symbols you'd really use. 05:58.400 --> 06:06.950 Aren't there harsh meaning checkmate, so you've got all the equipment needed to record a game, so 06:06.950 --> 06:13.010 key things to point out emphasized disambiguate, late night, some rook's, sometimes they're going 06:13.010 --> 06:14.390 to be exactly the same places. 06:14.900 --> 06:17.410 So there's a skill in disambiguate. 06:18.350 --> 06:18.760 Yeah. 06:18.830 --> 06:23.750 So when you're recording a game, make sure you specify which night, if if there's two nights going 06:23.750 --> 06:24.620 to the same place. 06:26.940 --> 06:33.090 And so we moved the night here, which tonight goes to Africa, we have to disambiguate tonight, Jeoffrey, 06:33.660 --> 06:36.150 all night, d'Afrique disambiguate. 06:36.750 --> 06:41.610 So that's the important key skill when notating in this very concise loverly format. 06:41.610 --> 06:47.330 In my view, algebraic notation used to be very, very long winded in the old days, like --'s looking 06:47.520 --> 06:48.900 for its relative. 06:48.900 --> 06:50.220 It's had some downsides. 06:50.820 --> 06:53.130 You know, it's much more elaborate now. 06:53.130 --> 06:54.810 We just e4 it's very concise. 06:54.810 --> 06:56.640 C5 or C6. 06:57.090 --> 06:58.310 It's very, very concise. 06:58.320 --> 07:04.590 I love this abbreviated algebraic notation, but you need to know the special things. 07:04.610 --> 07:11.010 You need to also record Drewes nowadays if it's a real world game and record the draw offers with open 07:11.040 --> 07:12.020 mic equal. 07:12.420 --> 07:14.120 So yes, some key points to mind. 07:14.130 --> 07:16.320 Kosslyn Kingslake hosting Queen Side. 07:16.980 --> 07:19.710 If you want to use an overview, I don't think you'd be in trouble. 07:19.980 --> 07:22.830 Cheque's, you know, plus Chappellet hash. 07:24.030 --> 07:26.010 So you've got all you need at the end of the scoresheet. 07:26.010 --> 07:31.560 Right at the end you have deponent resigns one national if you're playing whites, if black wins, it's 07:31.560 --> 07:32.760 not that one. 07:33.120 --> 07:34.200 So yeah, black wins. 07:34.200 --> 07:35.130 It's not that one. 07:35.130 --> 07:38.620 If it's a draw, it's half that dash off, you know. 07:38.640 --> 07:41.610 So as you can see that you split the point. 07:41.970 --> 07:48.570 So I hope that's pretty clear algebraic notation for recording your games and try and be as legible 07:48.570 --> 07:49.130 as possible. 07:49.150 --> 07:52.230 That's also, you know, you should be as legend as possible. 07:52.350 --> 07:56.850 And in a professional tournament, both of these, you get your opponent to sign at the end of the game, 07:56.850 --> 08:00.750 you're one and you sign the opponents and you both hands in a copy. 08:00.750 --> 08:04.620 There's a carbon copy quite often the hand into some controllers. 08:04.890 --> 08:08.940 So you actually keep the lesser copy, the less a marked copy. 08:09.780 --> 08:16.740 So you just get the carbon copy and you give the most legible scoresheet to the controllers. 08:17.250 --> 08:19.590 And they sometimes put the games into a database. 08:19.590 --> 08:22.180 After all, they just use it preparing or or both. 08:22.800 --> 08:30.930 So yes, recording games, you're contributing to that central chess database that everyone can see 08:30.930 --> 08:33.510 each other's games from all around the world as a result. 08:33.900 --> 08:38.070 What a lovely age of information technology and information sharing that we have. 08:38.310 --> 08:40.570 And this is what chess is thriving on the Internet. 08:40.590 --> 08:47.460 It's a natural as an informational game for sharing the game very concisely with this beautiful, beautiful, 08:47.460 --> 08:48.870 concise notation. 08:49.080 --> 08:53.130 So I hope you're as excited as me to start using algebraic notation. 08:53.730 --> 08:56.010 And then you can also study your games when you get home. 08:56.010 --> 08:58.440 You can play for as long as you've done it legibly. 08:58.440 --> 08:59.610 Make sure you've done it legibly. 09:00.060 --> 09:07.800 And bear in mind one issue I have sometimes in stressful situations like when I'm alone time the legibility 09:07.800 --> 09:09.840 goes down and that can be really, really sad. 09:10.110 --> 09:12.270 You don't want to miss out on recording those moments. 09:12.270 --> 09:17.190 So in the last five minutes, by the way, if you're down to less than five minutes, you don't have 09:17.190 --> 09:18.030 to record. 09:18.540 --> 09:19.620 Yeah, the fryday rules. 09:19.620 --> 09:23.880 You don't actually have to try and get someone else to record, ideally, if there is someone else to 09:23.880 --> 09:25.800 record the final moves. 09:26.340 --> 09:28.380 But yeah, when you're down to five minutes, you don't have to record. 09:28.620 --> 09:33.180 You end up just as losing on time without being able to play the position. 09:33.180 --> 09:33.840 You had the record. 09:33.840 --> 09:39.000 So, yeah, there are some special rules, which I hope you've checked out the feeding handbook as recommended, 09:39.000 --> 09:39.810 an early election. 09:40.050 --> 09:41.910 Check out the Friday rules handbook as well. 09:42.120 --> 09:42.900 But notation. 09:42.900 --> 09:44.040 Yeah, it's a lovely thing. 09:44.580 --> 09:46.290 And that's a study on games. 09:46.440 --> 09:51.630 I remember when you lose guys and you're in pain, try and make it more of a scientific experiment. 09:52.620 --> 09:55.530 Change it from a sporting event to a scientific event. 09:56.100 --> 10:03.360 Go home, do your post-mortem scientific analysis, make it a science experiments, try and draw conclusions, 10:03.360 --> 10:04.470 try and learn patterns. 10:04.740 --> 10:06.180 Try and see what you missed out on. 10:06.450 --> 10:07.860 Try and see what you could do better. 10:08.460 --> 10:11.310 The scoresheet, the notation is vital for all this. 10:11.700 --> 10:17.250 This is your score of the game that you can use to improve for your future battles. 10:17.250 --> 10:18.420 So bear that in mind. 10:18.930 --> 10:20.390 OK, thanks so much.