How do people learn chess notation. ?

Question

I find that learning how to write chess notation could be useful to review games that you had had played.

How do I go about starting to train myself to read the notations using just a plain chess board? Thanks for the tips.

Answer 1

You just have to know letters a-h for the files, and numbers 1-8 for the ranks.

Your Queen starts on d1, and your King on e1 (if you're playing the White pieces ... if you're playing the Black pieces, it's d8 and e8).

You can google "algebraic chess notation" and there will be plenty of articles to show you how to learn it... wikipeida has a good article.

Algebraic is the most commonly used method of notation today.

If you play through some games that are already recorded, you'll soon be able to identify ranks and files without even thinking about it.

Learning chess notation is essential if you want to study the game and improve.