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Chess is a lot of fun but that learning curve is gigantic. Getting better at chess feels very rewarding but the progress comes in small increments.started learning/playing chess.
this **** hard af lol. I cant even beat the computer on "normal" mode lol
If you really wanna learn, don’t feel discouraged. Anyone new to chess that isn’t a natural talent would get cooked by a normal difficulty chess bot.
I’d probably be terrible now due to not playing for over 12 years but I occasionally played chess in highschool. Fun game but one mistake can easily cost you the whole match.
One of my cousins has an actual ‘genius’ level intellect with a MENSA IQ score of around 139 or 140 and playing against him is like playing against automated cheating software.
He doesn’t even play chess but absolutely destroyed me any time I got him to play irl chess against me. The matches barely lasted a couple minutes and he was always able to quickly make a perfect reconstruction of every move we made and point out the mistakes.
People at that level seem to have every next 100 moves mapped out in their head. I don’t play Blitz chess (with the short timers) but my cousin would basically make his move as soon as I made my move.
He doesn’t really like chess but I always wondered how far he could’ve gone if he actively played and competed.