On November 1, 2016, I started a year-long project, challenging myself to master one expert-level skill every month. For the first eleven months, I succeeded at each of the challenges: I landed a standing backflip, learned to draw realistic portraits, solved a Rubik’s Cube in 17 seconds, played a five-minute…

This post is part of Month to Master, a 12-month accelerated learning project. For October, my goal is to defeat world champion Magnus Carlsen at a game of chess. Today is the very last day of my M2M project, and I’m excited to finally share one of the most unexpected…

This post is part of Month to Master, a 12-month accelerated learning project. For October, my goal is to defeat world champion Magnus Carlsen at a game of chess. Like with all of my past challenges, today I decided to tally up the total amount of time I spent on…

This post is part of Month to Master, a 12-month accelerated learning project. For October, my goal is to defeat world champion Magnus Carlsen at a game of chess. Two days ago, I showed that my algorithmic chess approach is actually workable. …

This post is part of Month to Master, a 12-month accelerated learning project. For October, my goal is to defeat world champion Magnus Carlsen at a game of chess. Yesterday, I finally was able to test my chess algorithm on a recent game I played, and it worked quite well…

This post is part of Month to Master, a 12-month accelerated learning project. For October, my goal is to defeat world champion Magnus Carlsen at a game of chess. Today, I finished the first version of my chess algorithm, allowing me to play a solid game of chess as a…

This post is part of Month to Master, a 12-month accelerated learning project. For October, my goal is to defeat world champion Magnus Carlsen at a game of chess. I just got off a twelve hour flight from Copenhagen back to San Francisco, so I’m going to keep this post…

This post is part of Month to Master, a 12-month accelerated learning project. For October, my goal is to defeat world champion Magnus Carlsen at a game of chess. Today, I spent most of the day exploring Copenhagen by foot. …

This post is part of Month to Master, a 12-month accelerated learning project. For October, my goal is to defeat world champion Magnus Carlsen at a game of chess. I’m typically very good at estimating how long doing anything will take me. Whether it’s writing a Medium post, or launching…