Your move would be a comment on someone elses myspace, and their move would be a comment on urs. Hopefully there would be an app that would synchronize the comments to create a preview of the board setup.
Is there any way to play chess based on a myspace comment system?
I wouldn't suggest corresponding through Comments, but rather email - through any source, such as Yahoo! Mail, for example.
In any case, without a board, on paper, or through any correspondence, you can play chess with algebraic notation. You see this in newspaper chess puzzles across the nation. Occasionally you see it in the puzzle, but the answers are always given in algebraic chess notation.
The system is quite easy, and actually has nothing to do with the algebraic system of mathematics. The board is labelled like a graph, with A to H along white's side, left to right, from rook to rook; and with 1 to 8 running up from white's rook on the A spot. (From left to right on black's side, the columns are labelled H to A.)
Please note that in chess, for a proper set-up, there is to be a black square in the bottom left corner of each player's side. Also, the queen is to be on the square of the same color as the piece. (Black and white will oppose queens and kings, and actually have a different set-up because of this.)
Back to notation...
After knowing where the squares are, and what they are called, you simply name the piece moving there.
q = Queen
k = King
b = Bishop
n = Knight
r = Rook
p = Pawn, but pawn notation doesn't ever get used. If a pawn move is made on the board, it is obvious that it is that piece going there. In this case, it need not be specified, so it eventually became that there is no notation for pawn, except to not notate any other piece.
Sometimes it becomes necessary to declare which rook, or which knight is landing on the said square. In those cases, also annotate the square it is leaving (at least by defining column or row). Columns and rows are referred to also as files and ranks, respectively. So that "rank and file", refers to row and column. (Think of file cabinets as standing up.)
You might see something like this...
(By the way, per turn, white is always first.)
1. e4 e5 (White opens with the king's pawn moving two spaces, and black responds in kind.)
2. nf3 d6 (White brings out the knight to attack the pawn, and black defends by bringing up the d-column pawn.)
This is a typical chess opening, except that black did not choose the best defense. Hope this helps.
Is there any way to play chess based on a myspace comment system?
Someone code this plz! hehe
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