Practising the Major System of Memorization

The Major System is one of the ways of helping oneself memorize numbers . Grasping some of the basics, I have prepared some examples for you.

  Somechess terms :

 673 Checkmate       969  Bishop    603 Chessmen  

  172  Diagonal         85  File       47  Rank   

From the list of top-50 players as of Oct 7,2014:

422  Aronian      767  Grischuk    195  Topalov    781 Gelfand 

 491  Rapport    2734  Nakamura     57  Leko         856  Vallejo  

 698  Jobava    802  Fressinet         

Further examples worth mentioning:

315   material    110  tactics    1992  doubled pawns

 906   position      79  combo     995  perpetual 

 197  tiebreak     180  defence     1231  tournament 

 417  rating      8038  forced move    3349  memorable

 714  capture    914  battery     90  piece    87  fork 

 1967  double check    734  grandmaster    491 rabbit  

 617  cheating      950  balance