On Mar 6, 12:16 pm, Jud McCranie
wrote:
On 6 Mar 2007 08:53:00 -0800, "SBD" wrote:

that it would discourage foreign players from playing in USCF events
if short English descriptive were mandated... but that's a TD/rules
question.

The USCF rulebook (chapter 3) says that FIDE recognizes only algebraic
(but it doesn't say anything about long alg.). USCF supports the use
of a single worldwide system but recognizes other systems such as
descriptive and computer notation.

I wonder if that single worldwide system is the German one, which is
what we call it in the problem world. For example, I edit at a problem
magazine called Orbit that uses English as the language of choice but
German notation - K,D,L,S,B.