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I think this article needs to be improved. --[[User:Bubba73|Bubba73]] 03:32, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

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One other use that might startle someone who reviews old chess literature may be when a rook who's all alone on his back rank moves "R-R1". As he cannot move to the R1 square upon which he now stands, he must be moving to the ''other'' R1, so it's unambiguous on a technicality. Indeed, the next move could indeed be "R-R1" again, if he's reacting to a new threat, or perhaps just wasting time. In some very old forms, the "1" square goes unnumbered, so one might see just "R-R". [[User:WHPratt|WHPratt]] ([[User talk:WHPratt|talk]]) 14:30, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

This is quite interesting, considering that check is generally considered insufficient to disambiguate the move in AN... [[User:Double sharp|Double sharp]] ([[User talk:Double sharp|talk]]) 18:47, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

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== Continued use in some symmetrical contexts ==

Annoyingly I cannot remember where I've seen this, but ifI mythink memoryI've servesstill well,seen DN is still sometimes used in especiallyspecially symmetrical contexts even when AN is used in the rest of the work. It's like the implicit use of DN in phrases like "rook on the seventh" (which in AN is the second rank if Black's doing it). One might then speak of the weakness at KB2 instead of that at f2/f7, or perhaps PxP listed in variations when it doesn't matter which pawn is doing the taking. Or perhaps in the ultimate sentence justifying the use of DN in such a scenario: "A fianchetto consists of the moves P-N3 and B-N2". Can anyone corroborate this hazy memory, though? [[User:Double sharp|Double sharp]] ([[User talk:Double sharp|talk]]) 18:44, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

:You often see things like this as English language descriptions rather than formal Descriptive Notation, like your "rook on the seventh" example, or generic references to "rook's pawn" or "knight's pawn". Sometimes it makes for more elegant English. [[User:MaxBrowne2|MaxBrowne2]] ([[User talk:MaxBrowne2|talk]]) 02:01, 23 November 2021 (UTC)