For playing chess the brain’s
memory is highly important. Remembering the positions, name of the squares ,color
of the squares helps to play the conventional chess as well as the blindfold
chess at ease.
There is a simple technique which is taught during the beginning
of the chess classes.
Every beginner is taught the names
of the squares. All the 64 squares have
names a1 ,a2 etc … h8. The first square
is black which is the bottom left square. Remember ‘Day starts from darkness’.
Give weightage ‘a’ as 1 , ‘b’ as
2 and so on upto ‘h’ as 8.
Let us name a square d4. Which
means ‘4’4. Replacing ‘d’ as 4.
Sum up the numbers 4+4 =8
The rule ‘Odd is white’. Now we
get the sum value as even which is not
white hence black.
Now, check the other square h3.
Replace ‘h’ as 8. We get ‘8’3. Sum up 8+3=11. It is a odd number and hence white.
‘ Where is the goat here?’ In Tamil,
AAdu means white, which is pronounced in
the same way as odd. ‘There are only
white goats in chess’. Don’t ask me- hey, goats are in different colours . That
is how kids are taught to remember. There are different stories for non Tamil
people.
Enjoy chess!.
