[Retros] Errata in "Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes"?

[Wei-Hwa Huang]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:55:02AM +0000, Richard Sabey wrote:

> This is not an error, but I'm asking it in case anyone on the list

> has encountered this notation: Smullyan's chess notation is strange:

> it's basically descriptive with S for knight, but with algebraic

> notation for square names. Some other English-language publications

> use S for knight, even when the only pieces used are orthodox chess

> pieces (so there is no need to distinguish knight from nightrider).

> But I have not seen Smullyan's mixture of descriptive and

> algebraic elsewhere. Is this peculiar to Smullyan or is/was it

> used elsewhere?


It's been a while since I've seen them (so I may be wrong),
but I seem to remember that Kenneth Howard's chess problems
books used that notation.  Anyone with them handy who is able to
check?

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Wei-Hwa Huang, whuang at ugcs.net, http://www.ugcs.net/~whuang/
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