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Zardorian
Sep 3, 2018
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Did you find that when you learned chess notation you actually improved at chess?
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notmtwain
Sep 3, 2018
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chesstenor2018 wrote:
Did you find that when you learned chess notation you actually improved at chess?

Of course. It is like learning to read and write. It opens all of chess history and theory to you.

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Zardorian
Sep 3, 2018
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That makes sense. I get the whole “battleship” notation, I’m just far from fluent at it and I know it’s gonna take a long time to acquire fluency. But I’d like to be able to read a Chess book, see the notation passages and be able to pretty much get them right away. I guess it’s like any language
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cellomaster8
Sep 3, 2018
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It’s not that hard to master, so don’t worry. One thing it does help you with is thinking about your next move before actually playing it because you have it write it down first.
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cyboo
Sep 3, 2018
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I love the English notation only. e4 is P to K4.
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Ziryab
Sep 3, 2018
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Yes
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hawksfan335
Sep 3, 2018
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Absolutely, if only for working with chess books.
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notmtwain
Sep 3, 2018
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cyboo wrote:
I love the English notation only. e4 is P to K4.

There's no point in starting out with descriptive notation these days. Algebraic is so much easier.

This guy said he understands the battleship notation, which I take to mean he understands the use of a to h and 1 to 8 to name squares.

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