21: do you ever get nervous? (the anxiety episode, pt 2)
Julia and JJ continue their conversation about how anxiety can impact your chess. They talk about how to notice when your thoughts turn from 'observational' to more 'reactive' or 'evaluative,' and how...
20 Okt 202253min
20: do you love this shit? (the anxiety episode, pt 1)
Julia explains what anxiety really is, and JJ talks about how they see this manifest in several of their students' annotations of their own slow games. You can learn how to, like, do anything about it...
13 Okt 202251min
19: the gang fixes lichess (with @NoJokeChris)
Julia and JJ are joined by Chris Callahan, the community organizer for LiChess.org. They discuss what LiChess does, and could do, about the addictiveness of blitz, how to be more accessible, and, abou...
29 Sep 202255min
18: it was only a blitz, how did it end up like this?
Julia and JJ talk about The Cheating Scandal, against their better judgment, breaking down the philosophical questions and psychological implications of The Scandal and make lots of jokes about anal b...
22 Sep 202250min
17: you can't quit us, we're fired
What should we do when our love of chess and our exhaustion with competition come into conflict? Julia and JJ tackle the question of why competitive and amateur chess players alike make such a big dea...
15 Sep 202235min
16: the unsolicited advice episode (with Omar Mills of Chess Von Doom)
After a week where chess twitter imploded under the weight of its users debating the value of giving unsolicited advice to other chess players, Julia and JJ decided to unsolicitedly tell everyone why ...
8 Jul 202235min
15: the adhd episode
Julia and JJ run a victory lap on a successful first season of podcasting by thanking their listeners (not you), giving candidates predictions (not Ding), and opening a to-be-continued discussion on n...
29 Jun 202256min
14: oops! all julia rios!
JJ and Julia are joined by Julia's "name twin" @omgjulia, a podcaster, poet, narrator, writer, and, most importantly, non-chess player who has been mistakenly tagged in twitter posts intended for "Dr....
23 Jun 202259min
