EloNotes Journal

Ideas for chess improvement, creator-led coaching, and better training loops.

Notes from the EloNotes team on chess learning, product decisions, launch updates, and the systems behind personalized lessons.

Notes from the start

Here is a thing I have learned this year. Every chess creator above a certain audience size has the same pile of unanswered DMs. People asking, mostly politely, if the creator can look at their games. The creator usually can’t. There are too many. So most go unanswered, and the creator feels bad about it. […]

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