John Lawson wrote on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 06:45 AM EST:
IMHO, the purpose of Funny [Betza] Notation is to make move descriptions
easier to understand. When you add operators, the move descriptions start
to look like symbolic logic expressions, and thereby become more opaque to
the reader. When that occurs, the variant author will also describe the
move in words, and the main reason for using the notation has been
obviated.
We could also consider extending Funny [Betza] Notation to cover movement
on triangular, hexagonal, and higher dimensional boards. We could also
extend it to include the nature of the board and the opening array. Then
a variant could be described by a list of statements in Funny [Betza]
Notation (or FBN), sort of a Backus-Naur Form for CV's