Any strategy for memorizing changing state in real time?

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Does anyone know of a strategy or technique for memorizing a changing state in real time?

An example of what I’m looking for is in board games like chess/checkers/go/etc. It is easy to memorize the current state of the game, or to memorize a list of moves, but it does not seem simple to memorize and visualize the changing state. For example, in chess you memorize the current state of the board, then you and your opponent make a few moves. Now I want to immediately answer the question: which pieces of mine does my opponent threaten? Effectively this is using mnemonics to play blindfold chess, or using mnemonics to improve visualization. However, I suspect that mnemonics probably do not help in this case, but I’m open to any ideas. The only ideas I come up with require a huge number of loci, and even then may not be that effective.

A simpler example would be keeping track of changing totals. For example, say you are watching a basketball game, and you want to keep track of how many points each player has scored. Since the numbers will change fairly rapidly, it seems like traditional loci-based approaches might lead to confusion.

These real-time memorization scenarios are very interesting to me.

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For baseball games, hockey, soccer games:

Set up two memory palaces that have 10 loci (one for Home, one for Away for example)
each time a team scores, just move your marker to the next loci
For instance if you loci are mailbox, front porch garden
When the team scores their first point, place a baseball player on the mailbox
When the team scores their second point, move the baseball player onto the front porch
then the garden, etc.

For football you might need to set up a larger palace

For basketball, I would just memorize the major system images
For example, when it is 41 vs 48: RaT vs Roof
when its 80 vs 88 FaCe vs FuFu
If you mix up two images, you just know its the higher number
For instance if you remember the team has either 90 (BaT) or 92 (BoNe), it would be 92
you can also slash/burn the lower number (90) after you use it

Ray