Reading chess notation training

Reading chess notation training

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26 Jan 10

Is there a recommendation for training on reading/following an entire chess game via notation only? I find it very cumbersome and slow reading chess books that insist on page after page of annotated chess games in algebraic notation.

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How else would you like the games to be represented on paper?

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play blindfold games

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Originally posted by heinzkat
How else would you like the games to be represented on paper?
Agreed.

3d board + Time + Willingness = Those books become Gems


-GIN

e4

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An interesting idea.

A chess book of annotated games with no games and no moves.

Morphy at the Opera

Morphy threatened the e-pawn so Back chopped the f3 Knight.
Morphy turned this tempo gain in a mate threat.

Black defended the mate, Morphy ignored the QNP and developed.

Thinking he now safe Black tried to disturb the White set - up and get the
Queens off by threatening the Bishop with his QNP.

Morphy sacrificed a Knight forcing Black into a cramped position.

Morphy put pressure on the pinned piece and by the means of a much
celebrated combination pulled of a famous checkmate.

Anyone want to 'show' Philidor's Legacy.

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Originally posted by greenpawn34
An interesting idea.

A chess book of annotated games with no games and no moves.

[b]Morphy at the Opera


Morphy threatened the e-pawn so Back chopped the f3 Knight.
Morphy turned this tempo gain in a mate threat.

Black defended the mate, Morphy ignored the QNP and developed.

Thinking he now safe Black tried to disturb the White set - ...[text shortened]... ebrated combination pulled of a famous checkmate.

Anyone want to 'show' Philidor's Legacy.[/b]
Take the tender part for yourself why don't you?

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King of the Ashes

Trying to rise ....

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Perhaps some sort of novelization of the game is called for here? Just like historical fiction, but with chess games. "Oce upon a time a lonely pawn, for reasons left mysterious to it, traveled forward two squares. That pawn thence met a similar looking creature that was brown where it was beautiful ivory in color. The opposing creature scared the lonely pawn, but the pawn was soon joined by a ..."

You get the point.

Only, this method seems even more cumbersome than just giving the moves, even if it does promise to be more entertaining.

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Hi Nowak

Great to see your avatar has calmed down.

Yes I bagged the easy one first.
Pity the poor guy who has to do one of the 100 movers.