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The Moment of Zuke:
Critical Positions and
Pivotal Decisions for
Colle System Players

by David Rudel
author of Zuke 'Em

7 modules written just for Colle System Players. Over 150 practice problems accompany lessons written in Rudel's crystal-clear, inimitable style

Thematic Lessons
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Rules

Notation Basics

There are a variety of ways to notate the moves during a chess game. For our purposes, we will stick to the most common one, which is sometimes referred to as “simple algebraic notation.” Observe the following example board and its coordinates. The files are labeled “a” through “h” from left to right from White’s perspective; the ranks are labeled “1” through “8” from bottom to top from White’s perspective.

a b c d e f g h

Pieces are identified by the following letters: K = king, Q = queen, B = bishop, N = knight (not K, which would be ambiguous with the K for king), R = rook, and no letter is used for the pawn. Moves are indicated by including a letter which represents the piece being moved, followed by the alpha-numeric coordinate of the square to which the piece is being moved. If two pieces of the same type could potentially move to the same square, then an additional letter or number is used to identify which of the two pieces is actually being moved.

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