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Betza notation (extended). The powerful XBetza extension to Betza's funny notation.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Bob Greenwade wrote on Sat, Oct 21, 2023 08:13 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 06:11 PM:

That's pretty much what I was thinking. I can experiment a bit to see if the bracket notation works, but the xyampafsQ3 is close to what I was thinking (though I'm pretty sure I would've put the x in the wrong spot).

I'm pretty sure enemy induction would have to be done as a spell, and I have no doubt that that would be more trouble than it's worth.

And I get what you're saying about the brackets; the other day I tried to use [vcD-aK] for a "sting" capture (leap two spaces forward or backward, capture, then "bounce" to any adjacent square), and the resulting behavior was very strange. I had it convert to straight strings, edited it manually until it was right, and ended up with (including a separate non-capturing move) vDvmpafcaKvmpafcabW, which works perfectly.

I am so looking forward to the bracket notation consistently working as intended!

PS: Thank you again for all your help on the Icon Clearinghouse diagram! I may request a bit more if and when I go to make it into a separate page, but for now I'm very happy with it.

Addendum: About the apostrophes (single quotes): does this work, at least well enough to put them into the move descriptions without generating an error message?