Abstract
This paper considers an online interpretation problem related to chess articles containing annotated chess games, published in online newspapers/magazines and chess-based web sites. The formats of most articles examined by the author were rigorous in the sense that a software program could be constructed to play the moves of the annotated games and the moves of the variations given in the articles on online chessboards. The author presents some results based on a preliminary version of a software program that interprets ‘well- formed’ chess articles. He argues that this type of interpreter should be a feasible alternative to conversion utilities such as PGN-file constructors/readers that are otherwise required to build/interpret these columns.