How good is your chess memory?

Nipplewise · 2015-07-17T15:47:18-07:00

If I spend time on a puzzle I can recreate it a week later or more, frequently mistaking non interacting pieces. I have memories of puzzles of the last year (cannot recrate them though). Yet my intents to learn openings have failed because I will forget them hours later. Again, last year, I played a

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Harvey_Wallbanger

Jul 20, 2015

#21

Look, Buster, just because you started a thread does not mean you own it or are the imperial dictator of it.

p.s. No one asked for YOUR advice because you are clueless.

TheGreatOogieBoogie

Jul 20, 2015

#22

I haven't studied the Leningrad or Najdorf in ages yet know so much of it and when reviewing chess problems I haven't done in months I can apply the same solution so at least fairly decent. The key to remembering things is not just repetition during a solitary study but many practice games to ensure you "know" the variation. I can look at certain positions and say, "Spassky vs.Fischer, Mar Del Plata 1960!" Or, "Smyslov vs. Najdorf, Zurich 1953!" (though that one was a very short draw) or, "Lasker vs. Schlechter round 7!" or, "Bogojubov-Lasker St.Petersburg 1925!" which involved a very difficult yet admirable defense by Lasker and a game fragment is featured in Shereshevsky's Endgame Strategy.