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Okay so I used to do a table for chess moves and import a picture from some online service to write chess stuff in LaTeX. Now I found xskak, and that is really a lot nicer and easier. But I can't trick xskak into accepting 0-0 for a move, why is that? It gives me a ZZ directly before the move in the output and my later diagram shows up without that move. Is ther some other notation for castling?

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As far as I can see, it's O-O (letter "O", not zero). – egreg Oct 22 '12 at 15:24
awesome, why I didn't figure that out myself I am not entirely sure. But thanks anyway. – Tobias Oct 22 '12 at 21:26

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According to Wikipedia, castling is denoted in Portable Game Notation (PGN) by O-O and O-O-O rather than 0-0 and 0-0-0 (the former are letters "O", the latter digits "0").

Apparently xskak adheres to PGN.

So the answer is "use O-O and O-O-O".

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Addition: Ulrike wrote in the xskakdocumentation: “The package xskak is an extension for the package skak. The package skak is a package from Torben Hoffmann which can parse and print chess games given in (a subset of) the PGN notation.” – Speravir Oct 22 '12 at 22:00

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