On 6 Mar 2007 08:53:00 -0800, "SBD" wrote:

I think that some of the Russians - again I am relying on memory -
like Botvinnik (?) preferred long algebraic;

Long algebraic has the advantage of telling you where a piece came
from, which makes it a little easier to check for 3-fold repetition.
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