Guide to PGN and FEN in Chess

A quick overview of the PGN (Portable Game Notation) and FEN (Forsyth-Edwards Notation) in chess and how you might use them.

[willalyle]

Hi Ben, thanks for the video. There's unfortunately an error though. After the active colour and castling availability (for both colours), the en passant target square is listed, not black's castling availability.

From Wikipedia: This is a square over which a pawn has just passed while moving two squares; it is given in algebraic notation. If there is no en passant target square, this field uses the character "-". This is recorded regardless of whether there is a pawn in position to capture en passant.

[acastanares]

Is there any way on the FEN notation to denote if a pawn in this position has en passant rights or not?

[facu_lb-]

Does the opening explorer use only the move order or also the fen? Because you can have the same position in different orders. what happens in this case?

[anzelavric]

Imagine chess turnament, but insted of using chess bord they write FEN lines.

[kindmulberry]

I thought the FEN was just some random code, turns out I'm badly wrong!