Chess · Stage 0: The board
Name the squares
You will read and say square names in every lesson from now on. First see how the names work, then find squares without help from the edges.
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Files are the columns. They are lettered a to h, starting from White's left. This one is the e-file.
More practice, free: the coordinates trainer, against the clock, on Lichess.