CC>F>  F>> Is there a checkers standard notation, anyone?
CC>F>
CC>F>  CC> I meant coordinate notation, but I DO know standard now, or
CC>F>  CC> descriptive as it's also called.
CC>F>
CC>F> Where might I get a textual description of it, via FTP or FREQ (no WW
CC>F> Thanks.
CC>I think there is a discription of it when they post the rules.
I just saw this thread....
Checkers is usually done as a number system (1-32).  That's the way the
American Checkers Federation does it.  It's official.
Some people will use algebraic just like with chess.  That's unofficial.
There is a PDN (Portable Draughts Notation) that was introduced a few
years ago by one of the major checkers programs.  It's based on PGN, but
I don't think there is any actual official description of PDN.  I was
never able to find anything complete or official when I was writing a
checkers program some months back.
No single method is really standardized world wide.  Especially when you
get into all the sizes of checkers / draughts that exist.
The American Checker Federation (ACF)
Charles C. Walker,
P.O. Box 365,
Petal, MS 39465.
Two places on the web to check:
http://www.primenet.com/~krow/
http://www.mcn.net/~jimloy/checkers.html
('F' says he doesn't have WWW, but can do ftp, so I assume he has
regular e-mail.  (By 'regular', I mean not fidonet net-mail to the
internetfidonet gateway, but real internet e-mail.)   If so, he can
use agora, which is an e-mail web server for web pages and it converts
them to readable text.
He can send an e-mail address to: agora@dna.affrc.go.jp with 'www' in
the body for help.  He can also put:
send http://www.primenet.com/~krow/
send http://www.mcn.net/~jimloy/checkers.html
to grab those two web pages.   There are others, of course.  He should
grab a copy of the 'internet via e-mail' faq.
Send a message to: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
with the subject containing the line:
send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email
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