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chessable.com
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chessable.com is the company blog at chessable.com, writing about games and science. Since 2017, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Intelligence and Practice in Chess Development”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Chessable, an interactive chess course site that turns chess books into spaced-repetition lessons. They value it for practising openings and tactics from books.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-04-27
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-14
- Intelligence and Practice in Chess Development2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-05
What Hacker News says?
John Bartholomew is also a co-founder of https://www.chessable.com/courses/ which complements his YouTube and Twitch videos. Chessable has interactive online lessons. My present preference is to spend my time watching his videos, then head over to chess.com for my chess fix. If I got serious about chess, I guess I would use Chessable to improve.
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on “Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube?”Submitted Intelligence and Practice in Chess Development as a story · 47 points
HN discussionAt https://www.chessable.com we manually, line by line, imported a full chess book to our digital format! Takes ages... later, after some validation, we built a tool that automates most of this.
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on “Ask HN: What are some hacks of real founders who did things that don't scale?”Submitted Magnus Carlsen Buys Chessable as a story · 6 points
HN discussionRegarding interactive training resources, there are other good resources which are partially free (or limited) and partially payable content: - https://chesstempo.com/ has a great collection of chess puzzles - https://www.chessable.com is specialized on interactive training. They have may free courses and combine what a classical book (text plus moves) would have done with memorization tools (for openings, tactics e…
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on “Chess.com vs. Lichess”Submitted How 4 plucky Englishmen held mighty AlphaZero to draw as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://chessable.com is pretty great for actually practicing the stuff from books!
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on “Aggressive Chess Openings (2012)”Submitted Intelligence and Practice in Chess Development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYeah, and you can take an interactive course version of it on Chessable https://www.chessable.com/the-woodpecker-method/course/10582... And most of the Chessable courses can be "woodpeckered" through the interface.
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on “Thoughts on chess improvement, after gaining 600 points in 6 months”Submitted An Update from Chessable as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf startuplister.com was strategically placed where it was then it worked. They now have my $89 for https://www.chessable.com :) Hope it's worth it!
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on “Places to Post Your Startup or Product”Submitted Sicilian Najdorf: How to Play, Attack and Counter as White and Black as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI played a little as a child (enough to beat my dad, who was a complete beginner). I've become quite addicted in the last couple of years (and yes, I'm 40 now). While I agree with the sentiments that "it's a total waste of time and I should learn something useful", it's still fun to have a challenging distraction. One thing I've found it quite good for is _learning to lose_. I _hate_ losing at games, even now, but,…
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on “Learning Chess at 40 (2016)”I've been using https://chessable.com for learning chess openings, tactics, strategy recently. It's spaced repetition forms of chess books and also courses made specifically for the platform. It works quite well.
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on “Using Anki and Spaced Repetition”Other software which have nailed spaced repetition (and a much better UI than Anki): - https://www.duolingo.com/ (language learninig) - https://www.chessable.com/ (chess) - https://readwise.io/ (book highlights) - https://examarly.com/ (test prep) - https://app.bestudious.io/login (certifications - CFA) - https://magoosh.com/ (vocabulary)
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on “Effective Spaced Repetition”Chessable Pro is $12 per month, or $75 per year: https://www.chessable.com/pro/
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on “How To Learn Chess As An Adult (or, how I went from 300 to 1500 ELO in 9 months)”
