Hi!
The notation used by chess players can indeed be a bit confusing when starting out playing chess. When discussing games or theory, one should be able to understand it and use it fluently.
But for beginners, the chess.com little speech bubbles of an animated avatar and their respective text can help to understand. The arrows of the analysis tool should prove useful as well.
A higher rated player who is able to reduce didactically can come in handy too! That doesn’t mean though that you’d outright need a coach. A higher rated friend or family member can be of help too!
If you’ve got the time and the interest, you can feel free to learn how to “decipher the hieroglyphs“.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_notation_(chess)
Greetings, have fun playing and learning chess!
I'm still pretty new at learning chess and making ok progress, but I'm finding it frustrating at times how the game analysis isn't always super helpful to my understanding of why a certain move would have been better than the one I made. Just as a realistic example I've encountered, in an opening in one game I'll capture with a knight and the game analysis will say "This was a mistake! You should have advanced a pawn!" but in another game in practically identical circumstances, I'll advance the pawn and the game analysis will say "This was a mistake! You should have captured with the knight!" I'm sure there's a lot more nuance at play here but that is my point exactly: I have no idea from the game analysis why one move was better than the other in each case. I don't know what to do with this information it doesn't seem to be helping me for any future scenarios because there's not teaching of the logic behind it. It would be so helpful if there were more explanation to the analysis. Even the Analysis tool is like Egyptian hieroglyphs and I don't see any lesson on how to read and understand this, I guess just suggesting that improvements continue to be made in helping new players like myself deepen their understanding of things. Thank you.