Today we will take a look at recording the moves that we play on the chessboard. As I said previously, it is worthwhile and necessary for us to record our moves. After a game has ended, we can return to it at our leisure and check for brilliancies or mistakes.
With notation, we can replay the games of the masters and learn from them. This is a sure way of improving one’s chess. I say this because I improved my chess in this manner. Then there is also the fact that it is compulsory to write down your moves before or after you play them when you compete in tournaments locally or internationally.
There was no internet when I learned to play chess. I recall having to go to the National Library to read chess notation. Some of the materials were in Russian or in French and some were in English.