🚀 go-pugleaf

Descriptive notation is still prevalent in South America,
at least Argentina and Brasil.

Anyone who has read Spanish descriptive (and I speak
pretty good Spanish) will appreciate the convenience
of algebraic notation in which only the initial character
varies.  As a tournament director I have read scoresheets
in Spanish, French, German, Russian, Polish, Finnish, and
even Hebrew algebraic.  (Plus one eccentric who drew figurines.)

I find it easier to use descriptive but in an international
spirit I abandoned it years ago.

I really don't understand the postings ridiculing figurines.
It looks neat and promotes sales of polyglot (or hieroglyphic)
books such as _Encyclopedia of Chess Openings_.  The Ancient
Greeks did a lot of math in words but since Viete introduced
algebraic symbols like 'x' the pace of research has accelerated.:-)

andy