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Originally Posted by Letum
It makes more sense to call the 2nd line, the 2nd line, rather than the 7th.
*edit* to put it more clearly:
It makes more sense to call Black's second line, blacks 2nd line, rather than White's 8th line.
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Can't follow your logic there. And the international chess scene obviously also does not. I knew that this old notation system existed, and had a tradition in the anglosaxon world, but I never saw it as a loss that precise coordinate-depending notation is dominating.
However.
