Using chess squares as memory palace

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I have been playing a lot of chess since childhood and have a lot of connection with the each of the 64 squares.

Is using chess squares to store an object a good enough technique. Will it be more useful as compared to say peg method?

The images and objects that have to be put on the chess squares can also be correlated to the pieces which naturally go there,
like b1 is the initial square of the white knight, but d5 squares is an ideal square for white knight in many systems.

I have started using chess squares for my memory technique to store letter quads for blindsolving Rubik’s cube event.

I hope I find others who find this technique useful.

Happy memorising, U’ R2 S’ U S2 U’ R2 U S’!

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I am dismal at chess and just beginning to play with Rubiks cube, but your memory approach is interesting.
Right now I am just getting to the point of solving first 2 layers and forming yellow cross on top. I have a standard algorithm for orienting the edges:

r u r’ u r u2 r ’ u

I need to memorize it. (Brute force repetition isn’t working well for me)
And I need to create a trigger to bring it up when needed.
How would you do it with your chessboard system?
Any other ideas?
Thanks.

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I think you are pointing at a completely different problem which is of memorising algorithms. I have devised the Yo notation to memorise algorithms. All the top cubers on the other hand, break the algorithm into triggers to understand it. Taking the algorithm you mentioned (it is a standard algorithm called Sune), R U R’ U R U2 R’ U can be broken down into triggers which looks like (R U R’) U (R U2 R’) U, and these triggers also have names, so the alg becomes more easier and its just (Insert) U (Long Insert) U. Bear in mind, not all algorithms are as simple as the Sune case, so thats why I use the Yo notation, so the alg, R U R’ U R U2 R’ U becomes jaka jcka for me, or a guy named Jaka renames himself as Jim Carrey Kan. A bit more memorable but a bit unnecessary too for easier algs like Sune. Yo notation is useful for harder algsets like ZBLL, 1LLL and 5-style.

Coming back to my topic, I plan to use a chess board to memorise multiple cube scrambles for the multiple blindfolded event. In multibld you are given one hour and you have to memorise all the cubes and execute them blindfolded. One cube has roughly about 20 letters of information, and since I use letter quads it is 5 images for me. So, in my system, I put these 5 images on one chess square.

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@abdyoyo
Can you explain Yo notation here.

I just watched your videos on YouTube and Nothing is visible in the first video while I was watching at 720 quality and in the second part all the pictures in the video were very moving.

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Hello Raja,

Yo notation is basically a way of encoding face turns of twisty puzzles.

I use the Yo notation, so the alg, R U R’ U R U2 R’ U becomes jaka jcka for me, or a guy named Jaka renames himself as Jim Carrey Kan.

So every turn is assigned a letter, like R is j and R’ is k and R2 is l.

I try to make images out of these letters as you saw with the Jaka Jim Carrey Kan thing I did above.

Hope this clears up your confusion.

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I also explored this. A lot of squares have “personal meaning” for me such as e4, c5, f7 etc. Other squares left me cold. I could not make an image with these squares. If I used their names, then I am just doing something like a card deck with 64 cards — something that passes from square names to images. This could be useful if the purpose was to memorize chess openings (in a way other than one does normally, e.g. by study of the logic — and with some repetitions). Has any one used the Art of Memory to remember chess openings? Not something trivial, but something with 20+ (double) moves? I’d hate to use up a place for that but it is an intersting experiment. It also violate the chess credo of soaking up “tabia” or critical positions.

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