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Podcast: The freeCodeCamp Podcast
Episode: Learn Chess and Become a Better Developer with Ihechikara Abba (ELO rating of 2285)
Description: On this week's freeCodeCamp podcast we're talking with software engineer Ihechikara Abba, who has a chess ELO rating of 2285, putting him among top competitive chess players. We just published his freeCodeCamp course on chess end games, and an accompanying handbook. We talk about: how learning chess can make you a better developer tips for getting into embedded systems development with Arduino how contributing to open source can serve as an alternative to building up a social media presence Links from our discussion: Ihechikara's checkmate patterns handbook: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/checkmate-patterns-in-chess-for-beginners/ <...