The Touching Responses to “On Learning Chess”

On Sunday night I jotted down a short reflection on my journey learning chess over the last two years. I made a couple graphs to fill it out and submitted it to HackerNews. The response has been overwhelming - tens of thousands of readers, and hundreds of helpful, funny, and encouraging comments, through HackerNews, Reddit, …

On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Years

I caught the chess bug as a college student, twenty-one years old, and it's become my favorite way to unwind since then, as I'm now working at VisioStack and starting a master's in CS at Clemson University. Like all hobbies, chess is more fun when you're making progress. And progress as an adult is certainly …