Descriptive notation abbreviated to the first letter of its name: K for king, Q for queen, R for rook, B for bishop, P for pawn. Knight begins with the same letter as king, so it is abbreviated to either "Kt" (used in older chess literature) or "N". "N" is used in this article. In 1944 "Chess Review" received many letters debating the change from Kt to N . In descriptive notation each square has two names, depending on Black's or White's viewpoint. Each is given a name corresponding with the piece that occupies the first at the start of the game. Thus
Shogi notation P86 or P-8f. The notation format has the following 5 part structure: An example using all 5 parts is S72x83+ or S7bx8c+. All parts are obligatory except for the "origin" and "promotion" parts. (Thus, most notation strings only contain 3 parts.) The "origin" part is only indicated when needed to resolve ambiguity. The "promotion" part is only needed when there is the possibility of promotion. Western notation is not used in Japanese language texts, as it is no more concise than traditional notation with kanji and two ciphers which originated in the Edo period. The first letter represents the piece