You noticed that this is not the way that I have shown you to play chords.You can read this by noting that each vertical line is a string and each horrizontal line is a fret. The dots on the lines are whrere you put your fingers. If there is a number next to a fret this means that the chord starts at the fret number #. # being the number.On top of the charts you notice that there are X's and O's. These are the symbols of which strings are to be strummed during the chord.X means do not strum that string and O means to strum it.Now you now enough information to go and discover some,but not all,interesting chords.