How to learn to read notation fluently
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Honestly, if a game has a diagram I can maybe follow a variation that is no more than 10 moves deep, if I take my time.
If I played a whole game, I can maybe reproduce it until a few days after the game, and I might have a few comments on it from the top of my head.
People who are much better at this than I am are grandmasters and strong amateurs who are rated around 2200 OTB.
What you are describing is essentially blindfold, which takes specific practice. I'm personally not good at it.
Bataleur wrote:
A good start should be to train the coordinates till you can name any square in a second - without even looking at the numbers and letters on the sides. It's not hard if you train it with the board coordinates trainer.
http://chess-skills.com/chess-tips/chessboard-coordinates-trainer/
That looks like a good site. I'll check it out more later. :)
Jul 27, 2015
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I can read notation no problem and visualize no problem I found that the more detailed the visualization was the easier it was however I get stuck when reading conflicting notation in texts for example when it sais say Nxe6 is threatened and than you read on as though that actually happened and would love to know how to stop doing this. I also get confused when it goes several sub variations deep and it is near impossible to determine what sub variation the book is in, In short my issue is reading the anchor points of notation I struggle isolating them in text is that the same sort of problem ???
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Jan 18, 2021
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Chess.com now has a coordinate trainer that is very helpful for ingraining the coordinates 
Using music notation software, you can produce high quality notes, scores and orchestra parts. This allows musicians to obtain the best quality notes and helps those studying or teaching music.
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