When I start teaching adults as soon as possible. It’s part of my first lesson. Its learning a new language and when it comes to learning, improving and understand that language (notation) comes handle. Granted, there are many strong players that do not care about it.

Take a look at Hercules Chess. Nelson provided a link to it in one of his videos. https://herculeschess.com/

It has a simple puzzle with a chess board. You are given a coordinate like d3 or h7 and asked to point to the spot on the board. I do at least ten of these daily.

Chess.com as the same coordinate training call Vision
https://www.chess.com/vision

Thanks guys… My question is should I spend time on this or concentrate on the courses principals or both? I already do 15 minutes of puzzles every day, should I add in some Vision? One last question, do these coordinate actualy trainers work?

Given tools like the chess.com analysis page I don’t find reading PGN notation that important because you get to see moves graphically. I guess it’s like reading music scores. If you understand the basics then you can figure out what’s what in your own time. For me the most important part is figuring out *what* to do, as opposed to how to notate it. That said, notating a game or interpreting one previously written is pretty easy if you have a reference chart of the squares to hand. It’s not like it’s against the clock 🙂

Just for the sake of completeness – lichess.org has that functionality as well:
https://lichess.org/training/coordinate

Reached 1200 level, up from 850 at the beginning of the course. #chess game: NerveStrike24 vs Perzyperz – https://www.chess.com/live/game/123198604725