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'''Descriptive Chess Notation''' is a notation for recording
[[Chess]] games, and at one time was the most popular notation for doing so.
Alternate names for this notation include descriptive notation,
English notation, and English descriptive notation.
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and special indicators if any. The piece names are K (King),
Q (Queen), R (Rook), B (Bishop), Kt (Knight), and P (Pawn);
note that
abbreviations except for the Knight and Pawn.
Special indicators include e.p. (en passant), Ch (Check), and Mate (Checkmate). If the move is a capture, the final square may be indicated by naming the piece being captured rather than by naming the final square. Typically, the move will record only enough information to make the move unambiguous. So, depending on the available possibilities, a pawn capturing a pawn may be noted as "P x P" if that is the only capture possible, or as "QBP x QP" ("Queen's Bishop's Pawn captures Queen's Pawn") if more than one such move is possible.
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