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do you have a chessboard with notation or without
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Better without the notation, since it motivates/encourages players to learn it more quickly. It is a fact that posting public notices and instructions in a foreign language discourages people from learning the national language (whatever it may be). (Hope this is not too politically incorrect for the Yanks among us!)
goldendog wrote:
Ziryab is also well known for collecting the rent on helpless maidens while twirling his black mustachio
e.g.
Ziryab: "You must pay the rent!"
Maiden: "I cannot pay the rent!"
Ziryab: "You must pay the rent!"
etcetera etcetera
When I was a kid, there was a somewhat more interesting version:
Villain: The whip, the whip!
Captive Maiden: No, no, not the whip!
Villain: The whip, the whip!
Captive Maiden: No, no, not the whip - anything but the whip!
Villain: Anything???
Captive Maiden: The whip, the whip!
Old thread. However, I want to chime in. I prefer without Algebraic Notation (AN). I purchased my DGT smart board without AN . I also ordered 3 vinyl boards without AN from wholesalechess.com https://www.wholesalechess.com/notationless-regulation-vinyl-tournament-chessboard.html with no notation. I wish I could find a mouse pad or silicone board with no notation. While I don't get confused, much anymore, if the algebraic board is orientated upside down, I do, if it's there, and I'm reading Descriptive Notation from a book for some reason. Record your games without the Algebraic Notation on the board, and you'll eventually get good and fast at it!
Has anyone ever seen a chess board like this one? Just starting to use annotation for the first time and while the edge notations are great I just think this kind of board would be super fast to learn on (and make it easier for me to convince a friend of mine do learn to play as well). 
@VinceCaruso1 I so badly want to inherently know each square by its notation and location, but I would find this board difficult to learn from as one would only gain familiarity of the overly present notion.
If the notation was much smaller, in the corner and less prominent, it'd be far more practical as it would allow one to gain familiarity of the notation by corresponding it with an "empty" square.
If the notation was much smaller, in the corner and less prominent, it'd be far more practical as it would allow one to gain familiarity of the notation by corresponding it with an "empty" square.
glockdave wrote:
I use the vision drills on this site. It helps too.
Thank you for that tip! I'm going to give that a shot. I know very few of them for white, but I think learning the notion is far more active than what is required to play the game. I think drills would allow me the opportunity to learn more effectively through repetition.
Then learning them for black will be the same challenge all over again lol.
why would I need notation; it takes 30 seconds to learn the coordinates and algebraic notation. also, a few of the books I've read have been in descriptive notation.