Hi! I have made a brand new chess podcast. You might ask how will this be different from the other chess podcasts? The Say Chess Podcast will be updating you on my chess projects, delivering blindfold chess puzzles, miniature games, and moments from chess history.
Very nice---I found the visualization exercises very helpful. Though I didn't manage to solve #2 and #3 correctly (I always have more trouble finding moves where the queen moves away from the scene as in #2; the furthest I got was Qe6, yet somehow it didn't occur to me to look further, even though it seemed pretty obvious after hearing the solution; on #3 I somehow forgot that the black rook was pointing down the open f-file after castling---such things happen to me sometimes when playing blindfold...), I figure that it doesn't hurt me to face a difficulty level that is challenging enough to cause me to fail at finding the solution sometimes---in the long run, it will probably help me to become sharper and better at visualizing.
For me, the speed of the problems was just right---except for the solutions, which I personally would prefer to be read somewhat slower, allowing me time to "process" the solution (though of course, I can also just hit the back button and listen to it multiple times).
Congrats on launching the new podcast! Wondered if you might be able to share an RSS feed so that it can be more easily added to podcast apps - Thanks!
Very nice---I found the visualization exercises very helpful. Though I didn't manage to solve #2 and #3 correctly (I always have more trouble finding moves where the queen moves away from the scene as in #2; the furthest I got was Qe6, yet somehow it didn't occur to me to look further, even though it seemed pretty obvious after hearing the solution; on #3 I somehow forgot that the black rook was pointing down the open f-file after castling---such things happen to me sometimes when playing blindfold...), I figure that it doesn't hurt me to face a difficulty level that is challenging enough to cause me to fail at finding the solution sometimes---in the long run, it will probably help me to become sharper and better at visualizing.
For me, the speed of the problems was just right---except for the solutions, which I personally would prefer to be read somewhat slower, allowing me time to "process" the solution (though of course, I can also just hit the back button and listen to it multiple times).
Congrats on launching the new podcast! Wondered if you might be able to share an RSS feed so that it can be more easily added to podcast apps - Thanks!