@thomassowell123 yeah, I am also always fascinated when someone says to me that he calculates the combination by actually naming every square in his head. I can't even begin to imagine doing this, I also go "here, here, here". It's interesting because you are a strong player, I thought only we patzers don't think in coordinates tongue.
@Sarg0n
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"By the way, I saw Queen's Gambit in two languages and in German they used algebraic notation in comntrast to the original one."
- Probably they made this decision because descriptive notation is unknown in Germany. I watched it in English and was confused by the strange way they are describing moves, not having heard of descriptive notation before. For a long time I wrongly believed this was some weird attempt of the producers to make it more relatable to non-chess players. Until in the last episode, there's this Russian boy who transmits the moves to the crowd outside, and confusingly (for me when I watched it) he used algebraic notation ("g6!").
Only then I did some research and figured out that they are historically accurate when using descriptive notation when Americans spoke, but algebraic for the Russians.
I think it's also this nerdy attention to detail that makes this such a fine series.
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