This game is from a recent tournament. I played the black pieces:
- F F- 2. A A 3. 7XN 34 4. F N 5. T- W 6. J 8A1
I prefer this move order because –
- 83 I 8. 8T 7F 9. 7T 3 10. 8K 51 11. 8L
– my opponent’s 8 is cut off from defending his TUNA side:
- … 33
IMHO he should have played 10. T to prevent this.
- 8TW 0A
The perfect spot for my 0.
- 8A2 NK 14. NJ 85 15. 7T 7S 16. 8P2 5L2
He who initiates a trade of 8’s ends up with an inferior position. Sometimes it’s better to maintain the tension.
- 5L U- 18. 32 7HK 19. 83 8H 20. 3 8E 21. 3E1 8AW 22. 3 8T1 23. 5L1 82W 24. 30
Bill Smythe
It’s scary that I can almost follow TUNAFISH notation. (OK, Smythescript.)
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The idea for Smythescript notation came to me in about 1975 when, in a tournament at the old Evanston Chess Club in the basement of one of landlord Cliff King’s apartment buildings, I observed a high-school age player use his own notation system. It was similar to normal algebraic, except he used the letters S through Z, instead of A through H, for files. Also, he wrote the rank number before, instead of after, the file letter. Castling K-side was exclam ! while castling Q-side was question ? mark.
Then it hit me. If we’re going to invent a screwy notation system, let’s do it right. Let’s make it so preposterous that it becomes a puzzle to figure it out. And let’s design it so that, in a typical game, a high percentage of moves can be written with just one symbol, either a letter or a digit, while in a few cases it becomes necessary to use three, four, or even five symbols. And let’s make it so that numbers are used when letters would be expected, and vice versa. Let’s base the notation for a typical generic move on the piece number, the direction moved, and the number of squares moved. And let’s use specific one-character symbols (digits or letters) for various singular phenomena, such as capture, check, and castling.
Thus, voila! Smythescript was born.
Bill Smythe