I've seen stuff like Qd5+ or Ne5+ and I'm not entirely sure what it means
Chess is pretty much the only cool tabletop game I'm any good at, and I'd like to get better and learn some strategy. I bought a weighted chess set with a roll up board, and I want a rigid board so I can set play if I don't have a table to play on. Boards look nice without the notation around the boarders, but will a board with notation help me develop some mastery of the game?
Yesterday I played in my first OTB Chess Tournament in the Unrated Division. I was lucky to win one match in four. I have the four scoresheets from my matches and want to enter them into Lichess or some database so that I can analyze my matches.
Any suggestions? Thanks!!!
Randy
I’m reading a book about Tal and there’s a lot of notation that goes through his games.
Although I’m enjoying the book, I’m finding it challenging to follow the games by reading the notation. I have to keep referring to the board and then checking which file etc the notation refers to!
What’s the best way to practice this method of reading chess games, please?
I’d love to be able to visualise the games based on the notation alone.
Hi, I'm working on a free, open-source plugin for Lichess (posted here).
The functionality I'm currently working on reads moves from the chess notation. Browser speech synthesis supports the following languages:
- German (done!)
- English (done!)
- Spanish (done!)
- French (done!)
- Hindi (done!)
- Indonesian (done!)
- Italian (done!)
- Japanese (done!)
- Korean (done!)
- Dutch (done!)
- Polish (done!)
- Portuguese (done!)
- Russian (done!)
- Chinese (done!)
If you're a native speaker (or at least proficient) in any of these languages I will add support for them if you help me translate these chess terms:
- takes: _____
- check: _____
- mate: _____
- promotes: _____
- pawn: _____
- rook: _____
- bishop: _____
- knight: _____
- queen: _____
- king: _____
- short castle: _____
- long castle: _____
If the names of the files use different letters than abcdefgh or the language doesn't use ordinary numbers 12345678 please include them too.
Please use the alphabet native for each language.
All help will be greatly appreciated and your name/nickname (if you want) will be added to the list of contributors!
I'm (1500 rapid on chess com) working through a chess book right now (Reassess your chess) and having difficulty visualizing the board purely from chess notation. Does the ability to follow games from text notation improve your in-game ability? I imagine it may help with visualization, but I'm not sure if it's worth the effort.
Dear chess community,
I made a colored chess board notation, because I want to improve my chess board visualization. Maybe you like it. I wish lichess.org or chess.com had this option.
Hey guys!
I took a long break from chess (about 10 years) but i just started back and again. The first thing I noticed that seemed foreign to me was taking notation. While I'm getting back into the swing of that, i thought it would be a cool idea to make that digital. Since taking notes is kind of old fashioned anyways. And by old fashioned i mean in the education and business world, we're moving to Evernote and OneNote and so on. It just makes more sense to store things digitally instead of on paper. Much easier to track and your closet doesn't become corroded with crinkly notebooks.
So I made an app!
I put a small price tag on it so i could justify spending more time on it if you guys like it. I've got a lot of ideas (and willing to hear more). Tell me what you think!
Right now the features are pretty simple yet very useful. You open the app, snap a picture of your score sheet, and watch it convert to a digital game on your phone. It doesn't get all the moves right every time but you can edit it while you're reviewing your game on your phone. Also that's just the case with machine learning.. The more pictures i have of notation sheets the better it will get.
As far as other features go..that's pretty much it! Let me know if you guys have any other ideas you'd like me to throw in here.
Oh and sorry android users. This is strictly iOS right now. If theres interest i will build one for android i promise!
I can understand most chess notation but when it gets into long lines of moves I get lost. I was thinking I could load up a chess.com analysis and follow it from there but I also want to learn to read chess notation. Do we think I stick out trying to follow the lines or load up an analysis board?
A simple request/proposal. All too frequently I see threads that discuss strategies, unit layouts, compositions, et c that use specific unit placement as a focal point, but the terminology they use is confusing. It's not the fault of actual users sharing their strategies or info, we just don't have standardized notation for the Board/hex layout, and so here I come to try and put an end to that issue. Letter/Numerical notation.
Here is a quick image example I pumped out in less than 5 minutes to help articulate my notation.
For those that don't click the link - For the vertically descending rows, you count 1 to 4, and for the horizontally extending columns, you use letters A through G. While the hexes aren't perfectly situated so that the actual board is a grid shape, there's still an equal amount of hexes per column and row, so you just have to mentally adjusted to the Even rows pushing a half of a hex to the right.
An example of the notation being used:
If you want to use a single Kled to solo the PvE rounds, instead of saying you put him middle right (confusing, vague without an actual image on hand to pinpoint which hex), you say you put him at 1E. Conversely, if you want a Vlad to solo the PvE rounds, instead of the "right nook" (again, vague) or the "Vel'koz hex" (terminology from Set 3 that isn't common knowledge), you'd place him on Hex 2G.
But why the negative numbers for the enemy's board/hex layout?
Good question. Honestly, I debated even adding an enemy board to the image and notation, because most of the time, you're only going to need the know the notation for boards on your side of the screen, as everybody shares the same viewpoint, and moving to an enemy's board presents it that way. However, there may be very specific scenarios where it'd be useful to have notation for when you have to calculate an enemy's positioning, and I feel it'd be a lot easier to say "-4A" over trying to do the quick mental process of remembering that the board is flipped horizontally, thus the enemy's carry is 4G, but on the other side (IE using Shroud or Zephyr and notating what placements enemy units need, to get maximum use out of the item).
Original discussion: Proposal: Chess (Letter/Number) Notation for Unit layout/hex placement
First poll: POLL: Chess (Letter/Number) Notation for Unit layout/hex placement
In order to avoid discord over the results of this poll, it has been suggested to hold a second, final poll between the two most popular notations.
For the next two days you can vote on which of the following standardized notations should be used for TFT. Vote here: Google Forms (closed)
Result of the poll:
And the winner is:
many thanks to /u/mindless_one_ for the visualization
The two remaining options to chose from are:
Direct comparison
Visualized for comparison (many thanks to /u/mindless_one_)
Please consider both options before voting. Feel free to discuss in the comments which option you find most suited and why.
I have noticed that an egregious number of people on this sub do not know basic chess notation. Hence I have created this guide
Naming the Squares
Chess squares are to be labelled with their coordinates on the board, typically in integers using suboptimal as its base (details). Certain users will prefer to use 10 other bases, though half are only used by cheaters.
Full vector notation of a square of standard dimensions is {'k’l’m}. which is assumed to define the volume {$k-1$l-1$m-1:$k$l$m}.
‘ indicates a position of standard dimensions terminating at following coordinate
$ indicates exact coordinate
: Defines a cubic area bounded by two coordinates
{} indicates that the following information describes a set of coordinates.
In beta versions, the board was typically limited to {$0$9:$8$h}. Due to this constraint, standard squares could be unambiguously defined as {‘k’l} or even kl however in full releases the area constraints have been altered and removed, and expansion packs have allowed for higher dimensional play so full notation is encouraged at all times.
Naming the Pieces
Where possible, use names that are easy to pronounce such as Dave and Tyler to name your pieces.
All pieces should be defined in figurine notation where possible. Common characters include ♔♛♝♙♖🂡🔋
If a piece does not have a defined icon, as found in some modded versions of the game, the official name of the piece should be used bounded by ~. For example, Levy Rozman may be notated as ~YElo%Abuser%69~
Ideally, the colour and gender of pieces moved should vary to promote gender and racial equality. However, displacing indigenous people has received backlash in recent years, and is increasingly discouraged. Child Molesters Bishops remain free to do as they wish despite some criticism.
Notation for moves
Each move is indicated by a piece’s icon or name, plus the location of the destination region. In most versions the Bahamas are out of bounds. For example, ♔{‘4e’-2h’0}. If multiple pieces are being moved simultaneously to the same destination, they can be grouped in a set using []. For example [♖🂡🔋🃅] {‘4f’2’0}.
Disambiguation: When identical pieces can move to the same location, the piece is uniquely identified by appending additional information as necessary in order of priority
- The number of pineapples they are willing to bribe opponents with
- Colour
I understand notation used on streams and so on, such as A4, C5 and so on. What I don't understand is say, I just watched a Ted Lasso episode where 2 characters are playing a game in their heads against each other and the notation they say is like "queen to king 5" and so on. Is this real notation, or something Hollywood does in not understanding chess? What even is King 5 here...cannot tell if it is 5 away from black or white King, I don't even know what it would mean if they say Knight 6 and so on.
Cuz reading the theory actually helps me and I always hate having to learn from those little boards and chess notation. Seems like every chess book is just mostly chess notation instead of actually explaining concepts. I understand they want to show examples, but it is honestly so grueling to learn that way. The least they can do is include images for every move so i won't have to put it in the computer or an app, or an actual chess board. So archaic and time consuming. All games are in the database anyway if i want to check out a game, so why bother.
But anyway, yeah I just learn way better from words rather than having to think "where am I supposed to put this piece and why" on EVERY single move just cuz they want to illustrate a highly situational concept. It's like they're trying to include every possible iteration and that's just not possible anyway. And it's not like I'm one of those people who can just read chess notation and see all the pieces move in my head.
So yeah, theory books using words?
Hi chess lovers,
Do you know if I can find some chess puzzles books without diagrams (with only the notation of the initial position)? I need this kind of books to train my memory, visualization and try to play blindfolded.
Greetings
I am a nerd and like reading historical treatises in facsimile (meaning, a copy of an original edition rather than new editions), and have facsimile editions of both Staunton's Handbook (1847) and MCO (2nd Ed., 1913). I see a lot of skepticism about MCO here saying it's outdated; surely Staunton will be even more so, but my main problem with both is the NOTATION.
I am curious about the history of chess notation, since algebraic notation seems to be very recent but also MUCH, MUCH better. Reading the old notation (1 P-K4, P-K4 for example, which would be 1.e4 e5 in modern notation) is just so cumbersome, and I feel like in order to get anything out of the treatises I'll have to convert it all into algebraic notation. Is this worth the time, or should I abandon the project, keep the treatises on my shelf as curiosities, and go buy up-to-date literature to learn from?
Edit: I am around 1500 in lichess rapid, I'm not playing against any deep theory
Let's say there are two rooks on the board and both can move to, for example, d1. How would we know which rook to move if the notation is Rd1?
Hi there, I am looking for a chess board that is :
- White/blonde vs pale green (square color)
- "Large or full size?" My understanding is that this is 20"-24"
- Wood in material and does not fold or folds no more than once.
- must have notation to denote the square (e.g. e6, a3, ect)
- Well-made and minimal/modern design
Some things I have found but just arent perfect are as follows:
- Good color but doesnt have notation
- Lacks notation as well
- vinyl material
- The design of the board and pieces are a bit too... ornate
It would appear my criteria is quite restrictive which is bittersweet, I would greatly appreciate any insight to smaller locations or places/boards I may have overlooked. Thank you very much for your help and time!
Original discussion: Proposal: Chess (Letter/Number) Notation for Unit layout/hex placement
For the next three days you can vote on which of the following standardized notations should be used for TFT. Vote here: Google Forms (closed)
Result:
Final poll to decide between Options 1 & 6: FINAL POLL: Chess (Letter/Number) Notation for Unit layout/hex placement
First poll:
There are three different notation concepts, each with two variations (swapped Axes 1234/ABCD).
- Option 1 & 2 are based on the classic chess notation.
- Option 3 & 4 mirror the opponents board.Shroud on A1 will hit -A1 -A2 -A3 -A4 on the opponent's board.
- Option 5 & 6 are rotationally symmetric.Zephyr on A1 will hit A1' on the opponent's board.
Please consider all options before voting. Feel free to discuss in the comments which option you find most suited and why.
