Answers.Body: <p>I had the same question a little while ago, and the most common answer I found was that the characters of &quot;j&quot; and &quot;i&quot; looked too similar and would often be used interchangeably, and become confusing for the players and the spectators.</p>
  
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Body: <p>For every Glinski's Hexagonal Chess game I see online the algebraic notation skips J for I K L. Why? What's wrong with J?
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Comments.Text: I would err a lot on the side of avoiding confusion between i and j, which in some fonts can look identical, and since there's L too
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Comments.Text: Skipping j is common when using letters as list sequence identifiers. Some of the reason is visual, as others have mentioned. Some of the reason is historical: i and j used to be the same letter, and even when they separated, their order relative to each other varied. Some languages still don't distinguish them. See also https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/68251/why-is-the-letter-j-omitted-in-the-spdf-sequence
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Title: Why does a hexagonal chess board skip the letter J?
ThreadText: # Why does a hexagonal chess board skip the letter J?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2024-01-03)
  
  For every Glinski's Hexagonal Chess game I see online the algebraic notation skips J for I K L. Why? What's wrong with J?
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  > **username_1**: I would err a lot on the side of avoiding confusion between i and j, which in some fonts can look identical, and since there's L too  
  > **username_2**: Skipping j is common when using letters as list sequence identifiers. Some of the reason is visual, as others have mentioned. Some of the reason is historical: i and j used to be the same letter, and even when they separated, their order relative to each other varied. Some languages still don't distinguish them. See also https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/68251/why-is-the-letter-j-omitted-in-the-spdf-sequence  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2024-06-18. Score: 4
  
  I had the same question a little while ago, and the most common answer I found was that the characters of "j" and "i" looked too similar and would often be used interchangeably, and become confusing for the players and the spectators.
  
  
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