I want to hear from the CHESS PLAYERS. What do you think of this approach?

🔥 POWERFUL! From a chess player (rated 1850) this is quite an interesting approach! For those of you who are unaware, many people play chess "blindfolded" - essentially using the coordinate (Ex: E4) to move around. This idea will be PERFECT for being able to remember multiple games at once. Super excited to use this! Also loving the stranger things vibe!

Holy WOW. That was such a great video and explanation. THANK YOU!!

I was waiting for a solution for memorizing a position for a while and your approach helped me fill the gaps to encode chess positions that I want to remember like endgames and mates. I changed it a little bit and use PAOL Person Action Object Location(country/city) to get 4 squares into one image. Great stuff I would never come up with this without your suggestion to combine two squares into PA. Thank you very much this was very helpful indeed :-)

Uauu Ótimo vídeo. Vou por em prática seus ensinamentos. Valeu!

I tried your technique few minutes ago. I took 30 minutes to memorize the peices' pictures and actios, create the memory palace and organize them in the chass board. That was awsome. PS.: i got wrong about 6,4% of the pieaces. But this is a low percentage I thing. I for sure could get better. Thanks to this channel owner.

Amazing explanation, I love memorizing crazyhouse chess positions, the pieces are randomly placed there.

thanks Nelson, I found it really interesting!

I immediately noticed that your Kings and Queens were on switched squares for it to be the correct setup. The white Queen should be on white square and the black Queen on black square. Kinda strange that you didn't memorize this detail.

Hello Nelson, great video ! I'm on the same quest for chess :D being regular player myself, i realized that a system for memorizing board isn't that helpful. The best would be to memorize patterns and tactics combinations. Chessable does a great job to make you memorize openings, with spaced repetitions, like memrise.

Really cool video !!

Now that music is epic

To become a good blindfold chess Player, or really strong player in general, you first need to learn visualizing the chess board in your head, which might even be the hardest part. First, you would learn the chess squares, so naming all squares and which color they have, while visualising it in your head. Next step, you visualize an empty chess board in your head, then put a bishop or knight on your visualized board, moving it around, until you really internalized the patterns of all possible piece movements. Then, practice this for years and if you are talented, at some point you will be able to play 5 or 10 games simultaneously while blindfolded and most of all, play them all well and win. So, to be really good at this, it's not enough, to simply remember where all the pieces are but you have to have a very clear Image of the whole board in your head. Playing chess is based in recognizing patterns, so to play good blindfold chess, you need to get that dam Image into your head as clearly and accurate as possible, otherwise, you might remember where the pieces are, but you will not be able to recognize any patterns, and actually play well. The key to being a good blindfold player, is not, bring bring able to remember, it's bring able to visualize it.

Beautiful introduction !

I use it with chess books, since they often go on multi page rants on why this 1 single move is important it is nice to remember it all. training my memory has really helped a lot with improving my japanese chess.

This is sooo OP, purely keeping in mind reasoning scheme or causal relationships for a given topic makes brain overclocked and thoughts magnitudes deeper

Thanks Nelson 🙏

Great video, as usual! I'm taking out my chess board to try this right now!

Hi Nelson, for the scenario of having 1 piece on the 2nd square ONLY, instead of action, would it be easier to have an object to memorise?

Hey great video! Chess players need a way to memorize lines like openings. Each line has multiple paths to remember. Using these techniques for remembering lines would be amazing but I'm not sure how to do it.

Very helpful

damn your video quality is amazing

Hey man ! This is very interesting, I might try it out :-). But as a chess player I firstly memorize a position because of its strategy, its logic.

1:43 kings and queens are on the wrong squares

1:45 The queens start on their respective colours so your chessboard isn't right. A chess player would memorize by steps. First, associating as fast as possible each square with its color. Then, you train to visualize whole variations in your brain. Finally, you try with small games (already played by others, a miniature would be nice). When it becomes easy, you do it with longer games. It is not recommended by medicine to it with more than one game. The effort is too important for the brain.

*That intro tho 👀🤩*

Hey Nelson, it’s really weird because I can play a full game of chess blindfolded decently. I play very often and am rated. I’m no master just a club player. But I don’t use any memory technique. I think the reason players can play blindfolded is because each move is more than just a move. There’s a reason for playing those moves, plus you’ve seen the patterns before. That why, paradoxically, it’s actually easier for me to play blindfolded against other players than against beginners because beginners will make random bad moves I’ve never seen before and than have no purpose. So it’s much harder to remember. Also, when memorizing the board I don’t look at each piece but rather the structure or connection between them. So I can just say in my head, black has the dragon structure on the king side and that covers like 6 pieces right then.

Nelson you are so creative I could see it this video intro and PA associations What made you so creative?? Is it practiceing memory techniques?? How creative ware you before you became a memory athlete??

First of all, just imagine the number of subatomic particles that the chess board is composed of, and then one attempts to memorize the entire chess board itself, I mean, WOW !

Love your videos! As a chess player, it would be interesting to see how memory techniques can be used to memorize openings. The technique would need to take into account a “tree of possibilities.” It would also be useful for memorizing other decision-tree-like patterns. I think that this type of branching may be difficult to encode in a standard memory palace 🤔

How about making patterns(square triangle rectangle or lines) with the pieces on the chessboard and using a linking method to create a story along the pattern

Quite interesting mnemonic system relating to the board and figures, but like you said at the beginning, I don't see how it can be useful in chess apart from memorizing random positions. Cool video!

awesome video! I like the quality!!!

i was never able to use memory palace. .. but i have a short term memory means i forgot very quickly. .. which is not ideal thing for me as a programmer. .. how did all of you guys mastered it? can you make example video on coding or itil?

Amazing yo

Hi Nelson Dellis, I m a thick follower of your channel. And I am a fide rated chess player as well(Not big fish) As an amature player, this technique does not benefit much for chess players. Nevertheless, it is a good memory exercise. What I understood, grandmasters have got numerous patterns and positions in their mind, which they do not stored by any particular technique, but by practice, that help them make decisions. It would be really beneficial if we could transfer these techniques to remember these patterns, or to store end game positions etc, but chess players may not like conversion, because the pieces has got strong sense in their memory rather than converted characters. ( These are my personal opinions)

I love this stuff. However, maybe you should take the time to learn how to set up the board. You need to rotate the board 90 degrees, so the rightmost square is white ( for both white and black).

I LIKED YOUR VIDEO..BTW LOVED THE INTRO MUSIC.. BUT WHAT IS THAT MUSIC I WANNA HEAR IT WHILE PLAY

Haha, I got your Matteo Ricci reference.

that intro is neat yo

So contrary to many of the comments being able to memorize a chess position is a valuable skill, not a panacea, and yes, having the logic of the position both helps to memorize and makes the memorization more useful. Memorizing random positions isn't very useful to chess as stated but if you can do that you can also memorize positions that make sense or have an inherent logic. My recently designed method for chess was more tedious to create -- watching Nelson whip out a system almost on the spot (I'm sure he did think about it some before though) was a useful encouragement too, plus I haven't used PA or PAO and didn't know about doing 6 or 8 digits systems. My system is derives from the typical English Major System phonetic encoding, but uses the LETTER of the file for the first letter in each peg word and (only) the significant consonants for the next and only consonant sound. Also, I was careful to keep the pegwords distinct from my Major System pegwords (as a precaution.) The purpose of my system is slightly different: to memorize strings of moves (openings, variations, continuations) and to memorize primarily positions with a small number of pieces such a s endgames or mating patterns that only consider the key pieces of the pattern. a1 doesn't quite follow the system since every pegword must be a concrete noun that is easy to picture: A1 steak sauce for this. b2 is boat, genie is g2, gecko is g7, Daffy is d8. Every file has it's own "Word" so when memorizing ideas about files or ranks, or procedures that are invariant based on files and ranks it's easy to do them as a whole: eagle for the e-file, monkey for the 3rd rank. All of the pairs also have combos, baker-gopher represents the pair of knight files (b & g) When playing blindfold (low skill but solidly) prior to doing this I noticed being able to track diagonals was an important skill. Every square is also denoted for its color which is useful in playing along diagonals, but also every diagonal (26 of them) is also easy to memorize by both the sequence/grouping of the items and the endpoints. Going a step further, knowing the "reflections" of all diagonals is useful so d1 (Queen) at "dodo" reflects at h5 (hulu) to reach e8 (Eve) where the Black King starts. Knowing the return path also: Eve (e8) to Arrow (a4) back to dodo (d1) to hulu (h4) to Eve (e8). Similarly for d8-d5-e1-e4 Every edge square, except the corners, is on a set of 4 diagonals that form a circuit. It helped me to add a specific figure for each of the 4 bishops (white LIGHT/DARK, and black LIGHT/DARK) since knowing the bishop's square color also helps when playing blindfold. I am working on Knight moves from pegword to pegword from any square -- not sure this is worth the effort, but it's helping solidify everything else. By placing all the titles of the sections from "100 Endgames You Must Know" and working through adding positions, key concepts/ideas, and continuations it's making the memorization move steadily through the key ideas. Just having the titles would seem pretty useful on first thought but memory is a funny thing and merely having a "Place" to hang the important information of each endgames helps (think "pegs" which we all know are useful.) The chessboard itself is rapidly approaching becoming a very useful memory palace of it's own -- since it's possible to visit each square sequentially either by rows (across the columns as in the video) or by files up the rows.) Not sure what I'll use this for -- doesn't have to be chess. In addition it seems to be practical to encode variations already calculated when deciding on a tactical move in a complex position to help avoid the problem of repeating lines already analyzed unnecessarily, or to speed that when new information indications recalculation is prudent. None of this eliminates the need for UNDERSTANDING and CONCEPTS but it makes fixing the examples, continuations, and ideas much easier.

I just want to mention that the chessboard is set up wrong at the intro

Anyone know the chess board and pieces used here?

PLAYING BLINDFOLD COMES WITH EXPERIENCE. YOUR METHOD CAN CAUSE CHAOS IN SOMEONE'S HEAD

As a person who is able to beat weak players without seeing the pieces, this was an interesting video.

How the hell your not famous in all the world dude yet??!

I like these parlor memory feats 👍 it's nice to be able claim to do things, but not use like any actual tricks beside real memory tricks and skills.

bro i am normal person but i can still do that kind of stuff

" I'm pretty good, but I'm not rated'. I hate to break it to you...but you are definitely not good if you aren't rated. No insult intended.

The thing that i see with this tecnique is that you dont remember the spots that are beeing threaten and are empty you just remember them as 0

Who’s the first man speaking in the intro? I know the second one is Magnus and third is Kasparov.

harry lorrain's method of memory tricks, translated to the chess board, interesting but it's very cumbersom

The queens gambits way to this is a bit..... Different

So the Knight is a horse and a rook is a Knight 😄

Can you memorize an entire chess game from first move to last

Mannn you are just mindblowing... But please do'nt blow out your mind 😂

This is just an amazing video and two good ideas presented. Good workaround with this technique. The second one especially will be quite fast yo. I don't use number system that much, but quite strong with letter pairs and letter quads, so I have a found a system using letter quads

I can't remember how I got here.

Omg wow

Part of me wants to treat the patterns like a star constellation or pixel art

Imagine the dark knight... as Batman!

Maybe you could start by setting up the board correctly?

I love the video. Made a rap to it. Just have to point out unicorns don’t fly lol but Pegasus does.

At 2:10 and following your Chess board is set incorrectly. The white square is always in the right hand corner, for BOTH players, as they sit behind their army to direct the battle. I've not played in 40+ yrs but that much I remember. While this is not Chess tactics per se, more aptly classified as mnemonics, association or visualization it would lend credibility to the vid if the board pieces and pawns were set to regulation standards of their respective positions. Furthermore, each Queen ALWAYS stands on an original square the same as her color dress, white queen on white square, black queen on black, unlikely that a queen dressed in white would have on black shoes, (🙂) the board being turned incorrectly causes her to be off-square. The last thing I remember about the Chess war is that the two Kings can NEVER stand on adjacent squares or next to each other -- never.

what were the king and queen before you rerecorded those bits hahaha

Blind fold chess is tough

I'm assuming you got some inspiration for your intro from chris ramsey.

Practice practice till you get it right Practice makes perfect

I know of the techniques. I just don't do it. Simply just imagine a 2d board with the graphical pieces and replay the moves. Do other people just imagine the board and moves or is it just me?

You got board wrong way white is right always remember

In the beginning of a video you placed pieces wrong white square is always on the right I'm rated around 1700

1:36 The chessboard is set up incorrectly

This is a cool trick for learning to memorize things but if you are serious about Chess this is wouldn't work well. If you want to understand the board better just start memorizing the positions on the board until you know their locations without looking at them. From there you can remember which pieces are in those locations and once you are comfortable with that you can play the game without the board. Playing without the board seems like a Genius task but its really not. It just takes time. Now on a higher level GM's can play simuls of up to 10 games without the board (Blindfolded) and that is hard for even the best players.

The starting position is wrong :(

Easy for magnus

I need a system to memorise a Go board. It is 19x19 board and full of black and white stones yo.

Watches video... Sees the board is being set up wrongly -.-

I'm an advanced chess player. Your whole approach doesn't work for me. Assigning people and actions to each piece, and using a memory palace just makes more things for me to remember. I find it much easier to just memorize more directly, there's less to remember. I don't really understand why memorizing "shrimp, eating = white pawn" is easier than memorizing "white pawn," for example. Also, I don't understand the point of the memory palace, but maybe because I can't see images in my head. The memory palace just adds more things for me to remember. I guess everyone's brain works differently. Mine prefers the abstractness of: white pawn a1, black knight b1, etc. But I grant your method may work for some.

This video is very helpful for beginners, excellent content. Surely it will motivate others to follow. I #BrainBlitzAudios appreciate it.👌👌🧡🧡🧡😊😊😊👍👍

Excuse me, Nelson, I'm not a master at chess, but it's really annoying to see that the chessboard in front of you while speaking is not properly set, because the two sides (Black and White) have a dark square on their right corner, which, in part, also generates a wrong collocation of the central pieces, the King and the Queen. This at least in the first minutes of the video (I'm writing in real time while watching). Ok then you clear the board and explain your method, first approach: images and the board. No, no, no, no: I assure you (because I'm a medical doctor and I can criticize myself properly) that I do not suffer from an Obsessive-Conpulsive Disorder, but a second time I feel annoyed by the set-up of the chessboard that you want to explain how to memorize, because the pieces are placed absurdely from the chess game point of view: there are even pawns in the first row and in a corner square... Second approach (numbers): like the first approach it is good to memorize anything, BUT completely unuseful for a chess player to memorize a real chess position, because the chess patterns, the pawn structures, the collocation of the pieces after development etc. can help a chess player more than an unspecific method of memorization.

Lol

Who's here after "Queen's Gambit?"

Queen of England.. because her hair is white. looool?????....

Amazing video concept yo. I do love playing chess, and my lichess ID is abunickabhi and my favourite variant is crazyhouse960. Hope to get to play with you online soon yo on lichess.org

this just one more misapplication of memory palaces. this method adds additional cognitive load because you need to remember lots of additional unnecessary information. and you will be translating between two unrelated languages (systems) (1) object/action combinations and (2) the chess pieces . this will be very distracting from visualizing the relationship between the pieces. memory palace is good for momorizing sequences of numbers. memory experts try to misapply it everywhere including languag vocabulary.

i am more confused now than before watching this video. Not helpful at all.

Worst explanation on how to memorize the chess board. Pathetic.