We're all nerds here (for now, I assume), so no worries.
And I was just pulling the words βalgebraic notationβ up from half-remembered shit I've absorbed, so I might be mistaken. I did look it up on wikipedia upon reading your reply though, so at least sure na akong may ganun nga (at hindi ako nauulyanin). But yeah, I guess that just reveals how little I know.
Thank you too for clearing up the misconceptions about chess. I know that math doesn't help with chess, nor IQ. What is helpful, I think, is the ability to recognize patterns, and to (quickly) choose which strategies are most helpful in the current situation.
I'll start small muna siguro, play against a computer AI every now and then, while reading up and building up the knowledge to recognize stuff once I play against humans.