How ? There are drills in chessmaster with that theme, divided by difficulty. But I am interested if there is some system for better memorization of games...?

I ask because often I play some nice casual games with my friends and when I lose I would like to analyze it or throw in Fritz, or check my opening mistakes but then I understand that I memorized only 15 moves or less which often is not enough...

Advices, experiences ?

Thx 🙂

The way I do it: Don't try to remember all the positions (Knight on f3 Bishop on ... etc.) Instead, try to remember patterns: Knight could have taken bishop with + and so he had to take knight with ... leading to an open file on ... etc)

It's a bit hard to explain! 😞

Yeah, what you have to do is to not remember where the pieces are but what was happening and your thought processes when playing the game.

Most of the time I can just replay games by remembering my decisions during the game and what I was thinking by playing a move

Originally posted by ivan2908
How ? There are drills in chessmaster with that theme, divided by difficulty. But I am interested if there is some system for better memorization of games...?

I ask because often I play some nice casual games with my friends and when I lose I would like to analyze it or throw in Fritz, or check my opening mistakes but then I understand that I memorized only 15 moves or less which often is not enough...

Advices, experiences ?

Thx 🙂

Originally posted by schakuhr
[b]I think those drills aren't meant to really memorize those games, but to visualize all the moves up to the end so you can produce the end position correctly. Right?

Originally posted by ivan2908
Well, first the chessmaster dictates moves in algebraic notation, then you have to make the mentioned moves. From 5 to 20 or more, depending on the difficulty you set.

Logical games are easier to memorize than illogical ones. Weak players play illogically. I cannot recall their games. I can recall some of mine for a time after playing them, and some positions and sequences for many years. It depends on the coherence of the game, and my level of concentration. When I'm too tired, or disinterested (such as when playing a particularly weak opponent), I cannot remember the game.

Making mental notes helps also it takes time playing chess to pick it up and fully be able to replay the games. If you look at all of the moves possible and make mental notes of why you liked each move you will do much better. Whats scary is I can usually set up 5 games positions from memory as they are in progress.

Tagging emotional thoughts for each moves is a technique from psychology. I believe it is called the encoding specificity principle if I'm not mistaken.

If you write all your games down it will be easier to memorize games.