The Chess Circuit

In this episode my guest is Tom Quilter, who is quite well known as a player on the tournament circuit and is also the creator of a great website for kids preparing for exams called Pinpoint Learning....

13 Okt 20201h

David Cordover bounced back from the pandemic by creating a totally unique platform, www.tornelo.com, where people could organise and play chess tournaments. Six months later Tornelo is now seeing ev...

26 Sep 20201h 17min

Today my guest is Oxford student, programmer, concert pianist and martial arts expert Aloysius Lip, who in his spare time has created some groundbreaking tournament management software called ScorchCh...

16 Sep 20201h 3min

One of the things I've been asked to do for The Chess Circuit is provide an audio version of some of the articles. That might seem quite tricky when it comes to annotating chess games, but we'll have ...

11 Sep 20209min

IN THIS EPISODE I chat to author Ben Graff. We cover what's been going on at the World Chess Olympiad, writing his novel The Greenbecker Gambit, and what chess might look like after lockdown. If you’r...

3 Sep 202057min

I chat to Peter Hornsby of www.2020chess.com, the innovative student team chess tournament that has gone global during the pandemic! We cover making chess commentary accessible to all, cheating in ch...

24 Aug 202058min

22 Aug 202043s