Memory technique for memorising chess positions

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Any ideas on how to do this for long term memory recall?

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I haven’t thought enough about it, but it’s an interesting question. I’d be curious to hear others’ ideas.

Someone posted this a while back, which you might find interesting. I didn’t look in depth at it: https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/the-chess-memory-palace/79533

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Hi Francis,

Chess is essentially a Grid and as such you can use the Grid Memory System:

X = Left and Right
Y = Up and down
Z = Diagonals

Look at Chess moves and associate the piece in question to the # of spaces moved

As you investigate Chess moves, you’ll make your own conclusions memory wise :slight_smile:

Stefos

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What is your goal ? Just memorize position ? Memorize a whole game ? Play blindfolded ?

You can take a look here : https://www.chessbase.in/news/timur-gareyev-blindfold-record/

And I believe Nelson Dellis made a video on this subject

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Just wondering about memorising the one position

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if you are familiar with chess, you can memorize the logic of the position, the patterns, bishop in fianchetto, the king who made a king or queen side castling), the different pieces attacked, the pawns structure.

If not, you can perhaps try this (I never tried the Nelson’s method)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN8VM3EBCsA&t=291s

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The positions I’m trying to memorise are more scrambled random positions

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So clearly the Nelson method :grinning:

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Will it be really useful ?

I saw that it is not unusual for Grandmasters players to play blindfolded

Wouldn’t that means using a particular memory trick isn’t the way ?

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Hi Raymond,

On the contrary, they DO use a memory system, not a “trick.”

How else would they remember?

Stefos

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Timur Gareyev used memory technics when he played 48 simultaneous blindfolded game.
It seems that in general Grandmasters don’t need this kind of technique to play blindfolded. But they are grand masters, and therefore, they have great experience, which exempts them from using these techniques.

But hey, we’re not all grandmasters :slight_smile:

It is noted that Simon Reinhard, who has a more than honorable ranking in chess, sometimes uses memory palaces to quickly remember chess openings.

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Yeah but that is not what I meant

Just the mastery shall be the goal here then, right ?

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Precisely, no.
When you look at
Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano, Hikaru and all these GM

Sometimes they were just too young when they did it for the first time,
Which is why I think the theory of a memory system is to exclude