Interested in playing chess but always hear how it is difficult to learn especially if you are an adult? There is no better time to start playing chess than today, especially with all the resources available now!!! Let's learn this game together and prove that while we may never become a grandmaster, we can still have fun. We can have a great time learning the game and progress to whatever level we can get to and until someone invents a time machine, today is still the best day to start. My ...
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L2C-07: Top Ten Things That Helped Me - The Final Four
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L2C-07: Top Ten Things That Helped Me - The Final Four I wrap up my top ten list of things that helped me get to 1,000 Elo. On this episode, I discuss one of the more hotly contested topics of openings with a somewhat unique take on what worked best for me. Then i cover tournament, rated games, and playing over the board live chess. I then discuss …
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L2C-06: Top Ten Things That Helped Me - Game Annotations, Books, and Long Games
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L2C-06: Top Ten Things That Helped Me - Game Annotations, Books, and Long Games On this episode, I cover three more related areas that have helped me to progress up to around 1,000 Elo. The first topic we cover is annotating your game and also reading annotated games by other players and masters. I have found this to be very helpful in improving my…
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L2C-05: Top Ten Things That Helped Me - YouTube and Podcasts
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L2C-05: Top Ten Things That Helped Me - YouTube and Podcasts On this episode, we go through two more things that have helped me most to this point in getting better at chess, YouTube and Podcasts. I recommend the YouTube channels that I have found to be most helpful to me on my journey to 1000 Elo, as well as several podcasts that I subscribe. One …
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L2C-04: Top Ten Things That Helped Me - The ChessDojo
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L2C-04: Top Ten Things That Helped Me - The ChessDojo Vicki rejoins the podcast to bring everyone up to speed with my chess history prior to 2025. It isn't much, but helps us to establish the starting point for my current chess journey. Welcome to the board. We hope you enjoy the show! For a link to the podcast, please use: https://tinyurl.com/Late…
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L2C-03: Rediscovering Chess Sorry for the delay, we had some technical difficulties getting the podcast feed setup, but we should be good to go now. On this episode, I go into the trials and tribulations that I went through as I began my chess journey. What went well, what went poorly, and some of the challenges of learning this game on my own. Wel…
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L2C-02: Bill's Chess History - Pre-2025 Vicki rejoins the podcast to bring everyone up to speed with my chess history prior to 2025. It isn't much, but helps us to establish the starting point for my current chess journey. Welcome to the board. We hope you enjoy the show! For a link to the podcast, please use: https://tinyurl.com/Late2Chess02 Also,…
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L2C-01: Why Does This Podcast Exist Welcome to the Late 2 Chess Podcast. On this first episode, we go into why this podcast exists and what the goals are going forward. One of the frustrations that I see is the near constant r=refrain that if you did not start playing chess at "X years old" you can never be good at the game. While it is true that i…
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