By your own admission, it was a hundred yrs ago. You listened to your father because all good boys love their dads. I'm sure you still love your father, its just your perspective that has changed, or the passage of all these yrs, has changed it for you.
Moving Pieces - A ridiculous Question
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I know most of you will agree with my title, but I really am serious. When I learned to play chess a hundred years ago my father taught me that a knight moved two spaces ahead or sideways and the one space diagonally. That is still how I visualize the move, as opposed to what I see elsewhere (three straight followed by one at aa right angle.) Obviously the knight ends up in the same place whichever way one thinks fo the move.
However, I keep wondering if my play would improve if I were to force myself to think of the move process in the modern way. My play could hardly get worse I am afraid, but my mind does resist the idea of the changed perspective. I was just watching Danny Rensch's videos on board visualization and realized that it would be difficult to think of doing them my way.
Does anyone care to try to enlighten me (I sure could use some enlightenment.)