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The Chess Notation lesson[0] from Lichess was really helpful when I was learning the notation a few years ago.

If you have a physical chessboard it can also help to try to play out a game from it’s notation and stop every few moves to check your board’s state against the state of the actual game.

I spent a couple of afternoons doing this and it stuck. You can refresh with some Chess Vision training[1] from Chess.com.

If you are interested in learning or reading more about chess, it is worth learning Portable Game Notation[2] (PGN). If you’re interested from a more programmatic perspective the Forsyth–Edwards Notation[3] (FEN) is more common in software, and there’s also the Universal Chess Interface[4] (UCI) format that is mostly used for communicating with engines.

[0]: https://lichess.org/study/ezdKJ7Di/9NLD1jo2

[1]: https://www.chess.com/vision

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Game_Notation

[3]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsyth%E2%80%93Edwards_Nota...

[4]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Chess_Interface



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