SonofPearl
Ryan Emmett
Wales 
Member Since: May 24, 2007
Last Login: Jul 3, 2009
Profile Views: 17293
Points: 5223
Status: loving the speed of Chess.com on Firefox 3.5 (3 days ago)
Homepage: sonofpearl.blogspot.com/index.html
Occupation: Accountant
About Me:
I'm interested in environmental issues, atheism and humanism. My first chess memory is of picking up a tiny knight in a pocket chess set that I had received one Christmas shortly before my fifth birthday. "That's a knight" my dad said, "it's from a game called chess". He taught me the basic rules (which was all he knew) and I've loved the game ever since. Best present I ever had. I love the history of the game, the shared culture of chess fans around the world and the aesthetic beauty that it can produce. Oh, I quite like winning as well :) I only wish it happened more often!
I have recently read Josh Waitzkin's book 'The Art of Learning' and would recommend it to anyone who wants to understand how to approach learning a skill. Here is a fascinating interview with Josh from the Authors@Google series:
Submitted by
SonofPearl on Jun 4, 2009 12:51pm.
A huge number of chess-related videos have been uploaded by chess.com members to the free chess videos section.
The section needs some improvements to it's functionality e.g. the ability to search for videos, and some way of weeding out duplicates, b...Read more »