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'''Game Notation''' refers to the recording of [[Moves|moves]] of the chess game including players or programs names, date, name of event and site - in human competitive chess each side is required to fill and sign a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoresheet_%28chess%29#Score_sheet score sheet]. In official computer chess over the board [[Tournaments|tournaments]], it was required for human operators as well, but was practically relaxed since programs keep their internal [[Move List|move list]] persistent and were able to restart for instance after a power failure <ref>really?</ref>. In Chess [[GUI|GUIs]], the game notation is presented inside a [[GUI#NotationWindow|notation window]], which may allow certain interactions, like scrolling the list, or replaying the game.
=Chess Notation=
While the move numeration is quite obvious, starting with move number one, there are various [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_notation Chess notations] with different move [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax syntax] defined. Most common in printed and electronic chess media, also in chess programs and [[Databases|databases]], is the [[Algebraic Chess Notation]], especially its short form called [[Algebraic Chess Notation#SAN|SAN]]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_chess_notation Descriptive chess notation] was used in English and Spanish-language literature until the late 20th century, but is today somehow obsolete.
Algebraic [[Algebraic Chess Notation#FAN|figurine notation]] (FAN) uses graphical [[Pieces|piece]] symbols rather than national language dependent letters for pieces, early promoted by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Informant Chess Informant]. In an attempt of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision Computer vision], [[Mathematician#HSBaird|Henry S. Baird]] and [[Ken Thompson]] used [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition optical character recognition] along with various heuristics and applying the rules of chess, to "read" the games of Informant's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopaedia_of_Chess_Openings Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings] with high accuracy and a success rate of 99.995% on approximately one million characters (2850 games, 945 pages) <ref>[[Mathematician#HSBaird|Henry S. Baird]], [[Ken Thompson]] ('''1990'''). ''[http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/reading_chess/ Reading Chess]''. [[IEEE#TPAMI|IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence]], Vol. 12, No. 6, [http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/reading_chess/reading_chess.pdf pdf]</ref>. FAN is supported by various [[GUI|chess GUIs]], corresponding [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_symbols_in_Unicode chess symbols] are available in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode Unicode] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38318 Unicode values for chessmen] by [[Steven Edwards]], [[CCC]], March 07, 2011</ref> <ref>[http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/miscellaneous_symbols.html Miscellaneous Symbols – Test for Unicode support in Web browsers]</ref>.
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=Sample Score sheet=
==Image==
Game Notation of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer Bobby Fischer] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Najdorf Miguel Najdorf] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_chess_notation Descriptive chess notation]:
{| class="wikitable"
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| [[FILE:Fischer Score Card.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|682px|link=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schachnotation]]
|-
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer Bobby Fischer] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Najdorf Miguel Najdorf], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_Chess_Olympiad 19th Chess Olympiad], 1970, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegen Siegen], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany West Germany] <ref>[http://www.echecs-photos.be/BobbyFischer-photos/index10.html JPEG BOBBY]</ref> <ref>[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1044320 Robert James Fischer vs Miguel Najdorf (1970)] from [http://www.chessgames.com/index.html chessgames.com]</ref>
|}
==PGN==
The above Game Notation in [[Algebraic Chess Notation#SAN|SAN]] as [[Portable Game Notation]]:
<pre>
[Event "19th Chess Olympiad"]
[Site "Siegen, Germany"]
[Date "1970.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Robert James Fischer"]
[Black "Miguel Najdorf"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Bd3 Nf6 6. O-O d6
7. c4 Bd7 8. Nc3 Nc6 9. Be3 Be7 10. h3 Ne5 11. Be2 Rc8 12. Qb3
Qc7 13. Rac1 O-O 14. f4 Nc6 15. Nf3 Qb8 16. Qd1 Be8 17. Qd2
Na5 18. b3 b6 19. Bd3 Nc6 20. Qf2 b5 21. Rfd1 Nb4 22. Bf1 bxc4
23. bxc4 a5 24. Nd4 Qa8 25. Qf3 Na6 26. Ndb5 Nc5 27. e5 dxe5
28. Qxa8 Rxa8 29. fxe5 Nfe4 30. Nd6 Bc6 31. Ncxe4 Nxe4 32. c5
Ng3 33. Bc4 h5 34. Bf2 h4 35. Bxg3 hxg3 36. Bb5 Bxb5 37. Nxb5
f6 38. Rd7 Bd8 39. Rc3 fxe5 40. Rxg3 Rf7 41. Rxf7 Kxf7 42. c6
Bb6+ 43. Kf1 Kf8 44. c7 Rc8 45. a4 e4 46. Ke2 e5 47. Rg6 Bd4
48. h4 Bb2 1-0
</pre>
=See also=
* [[Algebraic Chess Notation]]
* [[Encoding Moves]]
* [[Forsyth-Edwards Notation]]
* [[Databases|Chess Databases]]
* [[GUI|Graphical User Interface]]
* [[Move List]]
* [[Portable Game Notation]]
=Publications=
* [[Mathematician#HSBaird|Henry S. Baird]], [[Ken Thompson]] ('''1990'''). ''[http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/reading_chess/ Reading Chess]''. [[IEEE#TPAMI|IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence]], Vol. 12, No. 6, [http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/reading_chess/reading_chess.pdf pdf]
* [[Christian Wirth]], [[Johannes Fürnkranz]] ('''2015'''). ''[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6861960/ On Learning From Game Annotations]''. [[IEEE#TOCIAIGAMES|IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games]], Vol. 7, No. 3
=Forum Posts=
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61723 Chess Artist] by [[Ferdinand Mosca]], [[CCC]], October 15, 2016 » [[Ferdinand Mosca#ChessArtist|Chess Artist]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66297 PGN score annotation tags wv and bv] by [[Dann Corbit]], [[CCC]], January 10, 2018 » [[Portable Game Notation]]
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoresheet_%28chess%29#Score_sheet Score sheet - Glossary of chess from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_notation Chess notation from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_chess_notation Algebraic chess notation from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_chess_notation Descriptive chess notation from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICCF_numeric_notation ICCF numeric notation from Wikipedia]
* [https://www.chessclub.com/chessviewer/smith.html Smith Notation] from [[Internet Chess Club]], by [[Warren D. Smith]]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_symbols_in_Unicode Chess symbols in Unicode from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation_%28chess%29 Punctuation (chess) from Wikipedia]
* [https://github.com/fsmosca/chess-artist GitHub - fsmosca/chess-artist: A python script that can annotate chess games in pgn file ...] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61723 Chess Artist] by [[Ferdinand Mosca]], [[CCC]], October 15, 2016</ref> » [[Ferdinand Mosca#ChessArtist|Chess Artist]]
=References=
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