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Numbered squares recording moves on the playing diagonal.
Also known as: Checkers notation, Numeric square notation
Draughts numbers only the thirty-two playable dark squares, so a move is written as one number to another. Numbering half the board is possible because pieces never leave their own colour of square, which is a property of the game rather than a shorthand.
Records a move as the numbers of the starting and finishing squares, numbered one to thirty-two.
Contexts: History
Numbers only the playable dark squares, which is possible because a piece never leaves the colour of square it began on.
Contexts: History
Two numerals separated by a hyphen or a multiplication sign, written in a list of moves.