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Re: Chesscademy, a free chess learning site

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Post by Trufa »

jfarmer wrote: post #11

So, I know the basic rules of chess, but I'm terrible at the game because I've never practiced. This site looks neat! I also spent the last two years designing curriculum to teach folks how to program. I have some issues as a student. I'm currently on the "Sharp Pin" exercise: http://chesscademy.com/exercises/the-sharp-pin-that-piece-is... I get the basic idea. You have a piece which can't move without exposing a mor…

Definetely take a look a chess.com to start playing, and also chesstempo.com to practice tactics, both very helpful!

Re: Chesscademy, a free chess learning site

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Post by seletskiy »

Matetricks wrote: post #16
jfarmer wrote: post #11

So, I know the basic rules of chess, but I'm terrible at the game because I've never practiced. This site looks neat! I also spent the last two years designing curriculum to teach folks how to program. I have some issues as a student. I'm currently on the "Sharp Pin" exercise: http://chesscademy.com/exercises/the-sharp-pin-that-piece-is... I get the basic idea. You have a piece which can't move without exposing a mor…

This was some awesome feedback! I spent some time trying to approach the exercises from the perspective of a complete beginner, and I tried to design them accordingly. This is invaluable information that will help me design future lessons. Thank you for your detailed and rigorous analysis.

I've noticed, that in some of the videos you play same color twice at row. For example, see (1), when on 5:10 black castle, then you decided to play "a few more moves" and play for black again at 5:40 without any movement from white.

BTW, thanks for the great resource.

[1] http://chesscademy.com/videos/stages-of-the-game-an-overview...

Re: Chesscademy, a free chess learning site

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Post by awsm »

Trufa wrote: post #33
jfarmer wrote: post #11

So, I know the basic rules of chess, but I'm terrible at the game because I've never practiced. This site looks neat! I also spent the last two years designing curriculum to teach folks how to program. I have some issues as a student. I'm currently on the "Sharp Pin" exercise: http://chesscademy.com/exercises/the-sharp-pin-that-piece-is... I get the basic idea. You have a piece which can't move without exposing a mor…

Definetely take a look a chess.com to start playing, and also chesstempo.com to practice tactics, both very helpful!

I've recently got back into chess and have been playing a lot on chess.com thanks for the link to chesstempo as this also looks useful.

Re: Chesscademy, a free chess learning site

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Post by vkolencik »

One concept I really like for teaching Go (and I think it would be a great addition to this site) is the "Go teaching ladder": http://gtl.xmp.net/

It lets you submit a record of your game and people who are just a bit better players than you are review it and point out obvious (from their point of view) mistakes. Everyone's games are reviewed by someone above them in the ladder, therefore most people are both students and teachers at the same time.

I think it would be possible to use this concept for teaching chess as well, and maybe to some extent even programming.

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