From: Arnoud Kleynjan <akleynjan <at> IXDIRECT <dot> COM>
Date: 20 mar 2001
Subject: Re: About the notation

> The Japanese way of notating is much simpler. Why was the alphabetic
> notation
> even invented?
Well, the only advantage I can think of is that you cannot accidentaly
switch row and column coordinates. That might be why it was originally
introduced in Chess, but I'm just guessing.

But I don't think that "advantage" is big enough to change from the Japanese
notation.

Arnoud Kleynjan