yep! Jamie you have it. You would say white rook to E5, or something like that. Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A., VRT And Guinevere: Golden Lady Guide Dog guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs for the Blind Alumni Association www.guidedogs.com The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed. -Gil Bailie, author and lecturer (b. 1944) ----- Original Message ----- From: Jamie Yates To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 6:43 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Cindy: Chess Books I picked up two chess books: Beginner's Guide to Playing Chess by Susan Caldwell and Beginner's Chess Course by Enno Heyken The second book has good illustrations that are already pretty much described. For example one says The white rook at d5 can move along any of these four paths. Then it has red arrows on the picture showing where the piece can move. It also tells how to name the squares. I assume I would say where each piece is with the number and letter combination of the square? -- Jamie in Michigan Currently Reading: Too Big To Miss by Sue Ann Jaffarian www.michrxtech.com/books.html