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Joined HackerNews today. Thanks for sharing this!
Hello! As a friendly warning, you shouldn't post "thanks!" type posts on HN. They'll get d/ved to oblivion.
I love chess, but I abstain from playing, because when I start, I become obsessed with it and it takes over my life. I spend more and more time training, doing analysis, reading up, playing, trying to get better at it and become very touchy about my rating number.. And then I ask myself - why should I get better at chess ? I already play better than everyone who doesn't play chess. I play worse than anyone who can de…
I face a very similar issue, not with chess but with an online game called CS:GO. The day you figure out a solution or gain more insight into this, could you please please message me?
For me, an invaluable companion for learning openings has been http://www.eudesign.com/chessops/ . The design of the site is unchanged since ca. 1995, but it works well.
http://www.shredderchess.com/online-chess/online-databases/o...
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Your username rules don't allow hyphens but you don't lint them out of Facebook names :( Cool site, though!
I have a space and an accent in my name.. Linking to FB completely prevented me from signing up. After getting the initial error, nothing else would work.
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haha like codecademy before it! They get so mad when you say "Code Academy" too - still wonder why. That domain HAS to be available.
Woah, I didn't know. I always thought it's "Code Academy" and everyone else around me referred to it this way. I hate it when people go too clever just to be cool.
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Hello! As a friendly warning, you shouldn't post "thanks!" type posts on HN. They'll get d/ved to oblivion.
I've been on hackernews almost from the beginning and I didn't know this rule. Maybe once in a while, it's good to share basic rules :-)
The idea is that a comment should add something meaningful - constructive discussion, sharing your personal experience with the topic being discussed. Also, as far as I know, posts with high comments/votes ratio are penalized (flame wars detection).
For those who already know how to play chess but want to get better (preferably quickly with minimal, targeted training), I wrote a guide called "How to Get Good at Chess, Fast" that hit #2 on HN: http://www.gautamnarula.com/how-to-get-good-at-chess-fast/
I love chess, but I abstain from playing, because when I start, I become obsessed with it and it takes over my life. I spend more and more time training, doing analysis, reading up, playing, trying to get better at it and become very touchy about my rating number.. And then I ask myself - why should I get better at chess ? I already play better than everyone who doesn't play chess. I play worse than anyone who can de…
The important thing is to divorce your enjoyment of the game from the purely competitive aspect of it. This is admittedly hard to do--part of the reason I quit competitive chess was because I got burned out. But I plan on returning soon, because the time off has helped me rediscover my love for the game and I don't think competition will ever remove that from me again.