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   by andytratt 4y ago

   is there a leaderboard? 441684
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   What I Learned from Friends and Family Fundraising(world.hey.com)

   1 points by andytratt 4y ago|0 comments
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   by andytratt 5y ago

   got it, thanks, too late to modify it seems :(
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   by andytratt 5y ago

   Thanks so much for the positivity and suggestion! Unfortunately, it is not a priority for me right now to make an epub. Regarding puzzles, see tactics section. You surely have already found mountains of mate in 2 exercises somewhere... If n
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   by andytratt 5y ago

   magnus is just magnificent
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   by andytratt 5y ago

   Yay! Good luck, hope it works out! If the enthusiasm can be channeled, then that's great. The minigames should keep him from getting overwhelmed. But 5 can be hard sometimes, and if focus isn't there yet, just wait a bit and try a
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   by andytratt 5y ago

   indeed
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   by andytratt 5y ago

   Thanks you! Yes I intentionally buried the piece movement explanations after each minigame, trying to keep focus on the sequence of minigames and letting folks skip over the piece movements in case they already knew them a priori .
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   by andytratt 5y ago

   thanks for the positive feedback! warms my heart <3 :)
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    by andytratt 5y ago

    "Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. In rhetoric, it is also sometimes known as auxesis. In poetry and oratory, it emphasizes, evokes strong feelings, and creates strong impressions. As a fi
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    by andytratt 5y ago

    Thanks, amazing, yes please make interactive things!! I always wanted to turn this into a site and put more of them, but my limited programming patience only led to a basic diagram generator ( http://andytrattner.com/chessboa
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    by andytratt 5y ago

    yay!
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    by andytratt 5y ago

    nice
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    by andytratt 5y ago

    AWESOME!!! YES!!!! It's all about the most simple structures. There is a flaw in the B+R minigame, which is that perfect play leads to a draw, or rather people playing forever and getting board because they don't yet know the 50-m
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    by andytratt 5y ago

    Playing on the internet can be a chess killer and a mind-number. Since 2014 I have been almost purely been "wasting my time" on 3+2 and shorter blitz without much improvement. The glory days for me were 2012-2013, when I could set
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    by andytratt 5y ago

    YES. This is the point of the book! Chess rule absorption is quite a painful, boring process for most people. It can take a very long time, especially for children and/or folks who are not intrinsically motivated but being forced to le
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    by andytratt 5y ago

    Oh, there's no choice :) It always struck me as strange, among the many chess shelves in the Mechanics Institute and elsewhere, that there wasn't such a starter book out there already...I'm very pleased to hear it stacks up w
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    by andytratt 5y ago

    People are definitely surprised when they blunder mate in one. But after it happens and the pieces are knocked to the floor, perhaps seeing what you did wrong and understanding it quickly is a feature of the game rather than a bug. This all
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    by andytratt 5y ago

    thanks for the comment! super glad to hear about awesomeness :)
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    Chess Minigames for Enjoyable Learning [pdf](andytrattner.com)

    160 points by andytratt 5y ago|64 comments