I’m publishing a new series of articles on my blog this week. It’s my attempt to condense and share what I’ve learned in over 20 years of #ElixirLang/#Phoenix/#LiveView and #Ruby/#Rails development. I hope you find it helpful.
The Programmer's Stone · JEG2's Questions My System by Aron Nimzowitsch was one of the early chess books that had a big impact on me. The first part of the book, called The Elements, is where Nimzowitsch lays out the specific criteria he is monitoring to evaluate chess games.
Do I have any open files? Have I created any passed pawns? Am I pressing the attack on the back ranks? This tells Nimzowitsch and his readers that a chess game where they have managed to create a passed pawn on an open file that they control and push it to the seventh rank is probably going pretty well for them.
That's chess. Let's talk about programming…
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