On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Years • Hacker News Board

Post by dcist » Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 5:10 PM UTC

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Played and followed the AoE scene many times: 2002-2004, 2013-2014, and now playing again on AOE 2: DE. The new training scenarios in DE are quite helpful and I'd recommend them to new or returning players. DE has led to a massive resurgence of interest and a 3rd generation of players. First gen was AoE2 (CD), 2nd gen was the forgotten empires continuing things, 3rd is DE. Some players have spanned all 3. My current…

Is DE (or AoE in general) available on Mac and/or Linux?

It works on Mac but you have to use Boot Camp or Parallels (or a similar system). Kind of a pain but totally works.

Post by mrslave » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 11:36 PM UTC

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A quick second endorsement for this absolute gem of a website: lichess.org. I've gone from a player who can't beat the computer on level 1 (estimated ELO 800 LOL) to winning 50% of matches on level 3 (est. ELO 1400). Still pretty poor, but so is my study effort. And I'm OK with it. My colleague from another time zone struggled to recommend a book for my level and kinda laughed (albeit politely). But now we can play a…

I would like to recommend Willy Hendriks - Move First, Think Later, if it is okay with you to recommend something. It was my first real chess book and it was a very fun read. I am often intimidated by too many diagrams and endless variations in books, and he has a great way to tell a story about the psychology at the board. You do need an interest in psychology in chess to be able to enjoy the book, if it is just abo…

Late reply to say thank you for this recommendation. I'm already 2 chapters in, though if it gets harder I will slow my pace.

Book recommendations are always welcome. I'll usually check out anything that's 200 or so pages. My days of reading 1000 page books of small print on cheap paper however are over.

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