That will come with time, also you can play the vision section on here where you can practice the notation.
Question: does anyone else find chess notation confusing?
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That's just a matter of familiarity with the chessboard which takes a little time.
Feb 7, 2021
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#4
as you play read the notation for the moves. Play a daily game or two and you can review it via the notation as well. It will begin to make sense soon.
Feb 7, 2021
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#5
The advice to practice the vision drills is very good. Go to Learn>Vision to practice. It's very simple. The board will flash f6, for instance, and you then click on the f6 square. I think you can practice it from either side, but don't quote me on that. For instance, f6 from Black's side is c3 from White's side. It's good to practice visualizing the board from both sides. Once you've mastered that, move on to descriptive notation. (HAHAHA). Most younger players hate descriptive.
Feb 7, 2021
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chidlins17 hat geschrieben:
Sometimes I feel kind of lost when people start describing their games with "I did e4 then the other guy did d5". I mean, unless I have a board in my head and memorize which place is where, I have no clue what's happening.
it's just like graphing something in math. It's not really hard...
Now if you mean visualization, that takes time. A-H goes left to right on the white side, and on black it goes H-A (left-right). the number 1-8 starts at 1 on the white side, starts at 8 on the black side.
Feb 7, 2021
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#7
You have to get used to it. The more you play, the better you will be at it.
All of chess is familiarity, you more you're exposed to something the more likely you'll grasp it. Vision drills are extremely useful, do both colours.
JackRoach wrote:
You have to get used to it. The more you play, the better you will be at it.
+1
MSteen wrote:
The advice to practice the vision drills is very good. Go to Learn>Vision to practice. It's very simple. The board will flash f6, for instance, and you then click on the f6 square. I think you can practice it from either side, but don't quote me on that. For instance, f6 from Black's side is c3 from White's side. It's good to practice visualizing the board from both sides. Once you've mastered that, move on to descriptive notation. (HAHAHA). Most younger players hate descriptive.
I have Chernev's practical endings in descriptive notation. Really annoying that they didn't update it lol
Feb 8, 2021
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#14
I´m a bit more experienced and agree with what is said about training and getting used to the board. What I find hard to decode is when I see all these alternative moveorders in BRACKETS. I hate it. Some time you have brackets in brackets in brackets. Especialy when I do my own analysis for longer games it is sooo difficult to maintain an overfiew....
Like here:
(30.Kxg2 g6 (30... h6) 31. Ta2 Ta8 (31... Te4 32. Txa5 Txc4 33. Kf3) 32. Kf3 Kf7 33. Ke4 Ke6 (33 ... a4 34 Ta3) 34. h4 Kxd6 35. f5 gxf5+) and so on. It confuses me totaly....
But unfortunately, I don´t have a good alternative. Maybe it would help to add colors? Mainline red, sideline 1 green, sideline 2 yellow? Or is it just even more confusing? I don´t know.
30.Kxg2 g6 (30... h6) 31. Ta2 Ta8 (31... Te4 32. Txa5 (32. Ta1)Txc4 33. Kf3) 32. Kf3 Kf7 33. Ke4 Ke6 (33 ... a4 34 Ta3) 34. h4 Kxd6 35. f5 gxf5+
Can you practice the vision board on the other side? (Blacks?)
yeah just change the color under "color"
Feb 8, 2021
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#17
Desinoti wrote:
Can you practice the vision board on the other side? (Blacks?)
Yes, not only can you practice from either side (just tried it last night), but when you play white the coordinates flash in white, and when you play black they flash in black. It's excellent to practice from both sides.
Feb 8, 2021
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#18
I’m learning both descriptive and algebraic notation, as most of my books are in descriptive.
Sometimes I feel kind of lost when people start describing their games with "I did e4 then the other guy did d5". I mean, unless I have a board in my head and memorize which place is where, I have no clue what's happening.