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Betza Notation. A primer on the leading shorthand for describing variant piece moves.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
George Duke wrote on Mon, Jul 1, 2013 04:54 PM UTC:
See Betza's ''squigglies and angles'' of this comment, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=2466. Betza also has a Rule Zero, http://www.chessvariants.org/misc.dir/rule-zero.html, that was used for a few years to save unnecessary wording. Since the same rules get reapplied, Betza Notation can extend to entire CV not just piece-types, and there could become no need to use words for rules-set, just mathematical notation. Ralph Betza above is inviting someone to develop such system, and in fact Joe Joyce was one of the developers beyond the Betza Notation of this Overby article description.