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> what piece is sitting on c4.  Second (and more important), algebraic
> notation is biased toward white.  When playing through a game, sometimes

No, you are biased toward left-to-right alphabets and counting from
one to eight! :-)  Since I prefer to count down, I think algebraic is
biased towards Black.

> What I really can't understand is how people are so religious about it,
> that they fanatically attack one notational method and defend another.
> I mean, how important is it?

It's sort of like the argument between the English system of units and
the Metric system.  Sure, both are useable, but why have two systems?

> BTW (just to be fanatical and attack a notational method), I really get
> a chuckle out of the "official" 'figurine algebraic' notation, with little
> pictures, to lessen confusion, I guess.  What a farce.

It's also very difficult to draw those little pictures on the score sheet
when in time trouble!

It is, however, language independent.

					Tim Smith
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