g. Ngf3 implies "knight in the g-file moves for the square f3"; R1e2 implies "rook on the 1st rank moves to e2"). For pawns, no letter initial is used; so e4 signifies "pawn moves towards the square e4".The game of chess was then played and acknowledged in all European countries. A popular 13th-century Spanish manuscript masking chess, backgammon,