NM Jeremy Kane (#1)

NM Jeremy Kane is the Curriculum Director on Chess.com, the largest chess website in the world. He has worked with top grandmasters and chess personalities on curating and developing lessons which millions of users have utilized to improve their chess. Jeremy is also a chess coach, an alumnus of the University of Chicago, and a one-time alternate player for the Chicago Blaze, which played in the short-lived (but never forgotten) U.S. Chess League, a pre-cursor to the Pro Chess League. I was delighted to have Jeremy join the show today.

Episode highlights:

• Jeremy's career highlights, including winning the Wisconsin State Championship as a teenager and joining Chess.com as its Curriculum Directors

• Jeremy's favorite courses on Chess.com, including "Every Gambit Refuted" by GM Eugene Perelshteyn (friend of the pod!)

• How Jeremy designs curriculum and recruits players to give lessons

• Chicago Blaze and U.S. Chess League memories

• Some lukewarm Chess World Cup takes as of the end of Round 2: COVID surprises, dramatic upsets, and who we've been rooting for

• Levon Aronian joining the U.S. chess team despite being the "Pride of Armenia" and its impact on U.S. chess going forward

• Jeremy gives his thoughts on what he'd like to see in the world of online chess going forward

• A growing share of competitors (Kasparovchess, chess24, lichess) in the online chess market

• General advice for chess players going to their first OTB tournaments

• Jeremy's working on a new book called "The Next To Last Mistake" which will be out at the end of Summer 2021, so look out for that!

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