i don't understand how to read the text that represents each move.could anyone teach me?
The US Chess Federation has a good two-page document that explains algebraic notation (and descriptive notation and several others) at
http://archive.uschess.org/about/forms/KEEPINGSCORE.pdf
Wikipedia also has a good article at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_chess_notation
Try THIS LINK. It should help.
The only problem with his explanation is that here he uses the universally accepted pictorial method (pics of knights, bishops, etc) whereas in algebraic notation, particularly if you're writing down your own moves, we use K, Q, B, N to represent King, Queen, Bishop, Knight, while the pawn moves have only the destination square listed. So if your first move as white is to move your king's pawn forward two squares, it would be written down as 1.e4.
If that doesn't help, Google "How do you read chess notation" and select another link. There are plenty out there.
A word of warning: disregard any reference to English notation (eg 1.P-K4). It's not used any more. And you can safely disregard references to "full algebraic" (1.e2-e4) ... that's OK, but isn't normally used.
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