This notational system is called descriptive notation. Notation is the term for several systems to record either the moves made during a game of chess or the position of the pieces on a chess board. Bishop to queen 4 (or B-Q4) refers to a move made by a bishop to the queen 4 square.
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AD
16 years ago
Queen 4 is the square in the column the queens are in, and in the fourth row from the white player's end of the board. Also known as d4.
Bishop to Queen 4 means that the bishop's moved to that square.
copper
8 years ago
look down at a chess board. this suggests that from whereever the rook is, it will be moving to the fourth area up (faraway from you) interior the column that has your bishop this is on the Queen's edge of the board. the different ingredient may well be pronounced as the "King's Bishop". This counts as a valid description whether your queen's bishop has already moved... that sq. might nevertheless be pronounced as "queen's bishop 4." It sounds HORRIBLY confusilating, yet once you utilize it a quick time, it suddenly will become very clean and easy.
anonymous
16 years ago
Bishop moves to the square four places from where the queen starts. (Counting the square she starts on as one.)
http://www.chesscorner.com/tutorial/learn.htm
scoll down, it has a section on algebraic notation. What you cited is descriptive notation.
hilma
9 years ago
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