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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 Mon, Feb 26, 2024 03:23 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 06:05 AM:

I think that's a good use of @, ', and ", and your note about quotes looking like suffixes is a part of why I prefer | for the "or" function -- & would be (or at least look like) more of an "and" function, like trying to make an alternative to bracket notation.

And consider my Grandmaster Mage, currently notated as ooKooCooZooudcKooudcCooudcZaooxKaooxCaooxZ. (I probably can delete the first triad, perhaps with an m in t he second, and the last one may need another oo, but that's irrelevant here.) It would be much shorter with (treating the other string as though it's correct) ooK|C|ZooudcK|C|ZaooxK|C|Z, which is less than half as long.

A thought on ' and " on p (and presumably g): Doing this would still leave those marks open for similar but different meanings ono other modifiers. I have no ideas on what such meanings could be; I just thought I'd point that out.

Aside: Long-term, I'd like to eventually see ! used as an atom suffix for "not when under attack," and !! for "only when under attack." But that's admittedly a fairly low priority, since at this time the Chicken Pawn is the only piece I'm aware of that would use it (maybe the Anti-King and/or Orphan).