Can anyone enligthen me on Vukovic's chess notation as I don't understand it?

Question

Eg What do these mean: B-Kt2; Kt-Kt5?

Answer 1

B-Kt2

Maybe bishop moves to the 2nd rank in front of the Knight's starting position.

Kt-Kt5

Knight moves to the 5th rank in front of the knight's starting position.

Now this leaves the question, "Which knight's starting position - queenside or kingside?"

I have seen this indicated like this for a bishop moving to the 2nd rank in front of the queenside knight:

B-QKt2

Likewise it would be this for the kingside move:

B-KKt2

These notations I believe are written from the player's perspective which makes it even more confusing.  In other words, If you are white and black moves a bishop onto the square directly in front of your kings knights starting position, it would look like this:

B-KKt7

not

B-KKt2 from your whitside perspective.

Now it maybe that the reason the kingside or queenside is not designated in your examples is because it may not be necessary if the move can only be made to one side and not the other legally.  But if you look at the move list you may see that queenside or kingside is designated in some cases where a move to either side is legal and therefore needed to be indicated to avoid confusion. This would especially apply to queen or rook moves.

Needless to say, this style of notation truly sucks and that is why the now popular algebraic style is used.

Good luck!  I hope I'm right.