[Retros] Steno-Chess notation

[Mario Richter]

Dear Éric,

you wrote:


> Steno-Chess notation (in english), here :

>

> http://angelink.be/?StenoChess


Nice idea!
(which btw. produces a new kind of stalemate -
 besides the normal forward stalemate and
 and the retro stalemate you can now end up
 with a position where no move is possible
 with regard to the steno string).


One suggestion:
I would prefer a notation that doesn't make use of
special symbols like the underlined letters for pawn
promotions. Using such symbols makes it difficult to
distribute problems of that genre via text-only medias.

In the english version the only problematic letter
is 'b', which is already used for describing a move
which places a piece on the b-file.
Using e.g. a lowercase 'l' for bishop and lowercase
'q', 'r' and 'n' for describing a move which promotes
a pawn into a bishop, queen, rook resp. knight
would remove the necessity of using underlined letters.


Two questions:
Does the 'K' for describing a King move include
castling?
Would an additonal letter (e.g. 'U') for denoting a
pawn promotion without revealing what kind of piece
the pawn promoted into  make any sense?



My attempt for solving the steno problem posed
on the above mentioned website:

steno string = dg6BxgxK+x5Nx4+NxBgx+N1+x2xg+5ebxR6+dQNQg4~#

Is the following position the final position
of your intended solution?

8/p1pppp2/8/6k1/6P1/3BP3/P1PKP2P/Rr2q3


greetings
  mario