Reading chess notation training

Is there a recommendation for training on reading/following an entire chess game via notation only? I find it very cumbersome and slow reading chess books that insist on page after page of annotated chess games in algebraic notation.

How else would you like the games to be represented on paper?

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Originally posted by heinzkat
How else would you like the games to be represented on paper?

Agreed.

3d board + Time + Willingness = Those books become Gems


-GIN

An interesting idea.

A chess book of annotated games with no games and no moves.

Morphy at the Opera

Morphy threatened the e-pawn so Back chopped the f3 Knight.
Morphy turned this tempo gain in a mate threat.

Black defended the mate, Morphy ignored the QNP and developed.

Thinking he now safe Black tried to disturb the White set - up and get the
Queens off by threatening the Bishop with his QNP.

Morphy sacrificed a Knight forcing Black into a cramped position.

Morphy put pressure on the pinned piece and by the means of a much
celebrated combination pulled of a famous checkmate.

Anyone want to 'show' Philidor's Legacy.

Originally posted by greenpawn34
An interesting idea.

A chess book of annotated games with no games and no moves.

[b]Morphy at the Opera

Morphy threatened the e-pawn so Back chopped the f3 Knight.
Morphy turned this tempo gain in a mate threat.

Black defended the mate, Morphy ignored the QNP and developed.

Thinking he now safe Black tried to disturb the White set - ...[text shortened]... ebrated combination pulled of a famous checkmate.

Anyone want to 'show' Philidor's Legacy.[/b]

Take the tender part for yourself why don't you?

Perhaps some sort of novelization of the game is called for here? Just like historical fiction, but with chess games. "Oce upon a time a lonely pawn, for reasons left mysterious to it, traveled forward two squares. That pawn thence met a similar looking creature that was brown where it was beautiful ivory in color. The opposing creature scared the lonely pawn, but the pawn was soon joined by a ..."

You get the point.

Only, this method seems even more cumbersome than just giving the moves, even if it does promise to be more entertaining.

Hi Nowak

Great to see your avatar has calmed down.

Yes I bagged the easy one first.
Pity the poor guy who has to do one of the 100 movers.