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#65 Rod's Gambit - Spring, Scala, TypeScript, and Chess with Rod Johnson

Happy Path Programming

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The Importance of Opening Theory

When he was eight, someone gave him a chess set for his birthday. And then my father had never played chess. So I started teaching him how to play the game. While I was teaching him, he beat me. It just seems pointless because whoever I teach is just gonna... Well, like you, I kind of nursed you into mountain biking and now I can't keep up with you. That sounds really interesting to me.

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