Updates: Schedule Update & Video Pod Episodes
News updates for this week: 1) GM Susan Polgar is coming to the show very soon! 2) You can submit a question for Susan by joining my Patreon membership (deadline to submit Q is 2/27 at 1pm CT.) 3) Bec...
25 Feb 20252min
How to Build Attacking Intuition w/ WGM Thalia Cervantes Landeiro
117 Hailing from Cuba, and now one of the top American women players, WGM Thalia Cervantes is a chess powerhouse. For the past four years, she’s been invited to and played at the elite US Women’s Ches...
19 Feb 20251h 8min
GM Boris Avrukh: How to Play Better Defense, Coaching Fabi, & Playing Against Tal
116 What a chess career! GM Boris Avrukh cracked the World Top 50 in 2005 and achieved a peak rating of 2668. He has coached the world’s best players like Fabiano Caruana, Vladimir Kramnik, and Wesle...
11 Feb 20251h 2min
Nigerian Star Uses Chess to Improve Others’ Lives & Her Own w/ WFM Perpetual Ogbiyoyo
115 She learned the game at 19. The next year she became a titled player with an 1800+ FIDE rating. Then, several years later, WFM Perpetual Ogbiyoyo founded an organization to spread chess to girls a...
4 Feb 202539min
Adult Improver Pod: Nicholas Sloan - A 400+ Rating Rise in 2 Years (& Chasing the NM Title)
114 Leaping 400 rating points in classical, rated chess as an adult in just two years? That requires a huge effort and rare dedication. Two qualities that describe well this week’s guest, fellow adult...
28 Jan 20251h 2min
GM Josh Friedel - Common Middlegame Mistakes & Coaching Insights
113 Rarely do grandmasters focus on helping club players and beginners. But when they do it’s rare and exciting. Their extra skill and understanding of the game deliver insights that even other titled...
21 Jan 202551min
Adult Improver Pod: Sydney Strauss - Moving to NYC to Chase Her Chess Dreams
112 Would you move to a new city for chess? Few have that level of commitment to the game. But our guest this week did exactly that. Adult improver Sydney Strauss moved to New York City this past year...
14 Jan 20251h
WIM Svitlana Demchenko - Insights on Imbalances and Her Dynamic Chess Life
111 She does it all. WIM Svitlana Demchenko is a course creator, coach, streamer, and high-level chess competitor. Born in Ukraine and a long-time Canadian citizen, Svitlana proved herself early in ch...
8 Jan 202542min
