Sunday, July 21, 2024

Right to Left

 

Source: Doar Ha'yom, 17 September 1922, p. 4

A frequent correspondent sends us a note of Doar Ha'yom's column from the early 1920s. A specific point of interest is that, as we have noted before, the chess notation was from right to left, with the first Hebrew letter (aleph) donating the h-file, not the a-file, the second Hebrew letter (bet) the g-file, etc. 

Naturally, this caused significant confusion! 

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