I can’t stop playing Duolingo Chess

The game is full of hole for this type of instruction; There are not many programs that teach basic chess. “Many of the products that were on the market already known each other, and we really saw the opportunity to bring him more on the masses,” says Edwin Bodge, a product manager in Duoli’s Chess Team.

Another complaint to create a chess program is that the chess lasts for a long time to overcome, who uses people in a duology that build long-term business, but also the user who works on a long-term goal that leads patience and thinking.

A few steps in front

To create a game, Duolingo hired people with a series of experiences for working on format. For example, when Bodge joined the team, he says he knew how to pieced and did it. The company also has someone on staff who leads his son every weekend to humorous tournaments.

The program is also suitable for individuals at the middle level. “If you have a previous chess experience, you can test the subsequent part of the course,” he says. “But in the most part, we really went after chess is much more affordable to people who or they don’t know about it or just barely.”

Fishman agrees. While the Duolingo application is “Great to generate interest and installation of the basis and does not replace structured learning or wealth of learning with the teacher,” he says. “The application can point out rules and simple tactics, but there is also no personalized feedback and motivation that comes from coaches.”

While I would like to consider it more serious in chess in the future in the future, I play chess every day for now. I first play several lessons and surprise myself how fast I move through levels. Then I play a few matches. It’s a nice break from moving social media and keeps my mind busy when I’m in a line to download kids waiting for children. Unlike language learning modules, I don’t need to read or write. I can only focus on pieces.

Oscar is a loser lit when I take his queen and fun to watch it frustrated. He is obviously programmed to be a good competitor, and he just never lets me win. The program knows my knowledge of the game and how to challenge me without overcoming.

“When you first run, Oscar will easily go easily,” says Sammi Siegel, staff software engineer in the chess team in Duoling. “Initially, you need more easily experience and more hints. While it will beat you, the program will reduce you in difficulty, so you will get a little harder and more harder, and then if you lose and reduce you.”

In addition to maintaining my duolingo to go and working through the chess level, my personal goal is to increase my Elo ScoreThe global ranking system used to compare chess players. It helps me understand where I stand in comparison with more spicy players or if I decide to play on another network platform or in real life.

“The program is trying to calibrate where you are and push you to a higher ELO grade after you are ready for it,” Siegel says. The level of 1,500 is considered an intermediate and there is also a duoling game. I’m hovering about 600, but I get the country every day.

My children also started playing chess on the application and entertain the sending of the screen shots of each other ELO results. One side is that the program does not have the ability to play within the application against my children or friends; I can only play against the Oscar. Points admits that the option is to compete with other players or friends a common request and says it is in radar work.

For now, I play as much as I can learn new strategies every day. That 80s girl who never found a way to pick up chess is proud to finally hang up. I want to show my kids that you can always learn a new skill, even when life is busy. I’d also like to win them on several games.