The Chess Pit

Twitter Facebook Twitch YouTube The guys moan about being plagiarised, but introduce the classic new game 'Chessplayer or Cheese', probably shortly to be stolen. Christory celebrates the mid 80s an...

10 Sep 202043min

Twitter Facebook Twitch YouTube The boys get all indecisive this week in tribute to the governing body of chess. Expect disconnections and a big ol' love-in. We also pay tribute to Wolfgang Uhlmann...

3 Sep 202040min

Twitter Facebook Twitch YouTube For the first time in five weeks, our virtual studio has Chris, Jon and Phil in it. They celebrate their reunion by pondering whether wolves should be reintroduced int...

27 Aug 202052min

Twitter Facebook Twitch YouTube Kanwal Bhatia has been part of the England Women's chess team since 2008 and has had a career in machine learning. Here she tells Phil about both and they thrash out...

20 Aug 202036min

Twitter Facebook Twitch YouTube Thom Lawrence is the CTO of StatsBomb, who are definitely Big Data, whatever they claim to the contrary. Thom is also a decent chess player and heavily invested in the...

13 Aug 202058min

Twitter Facebook Twitch YouTube The Hastings International Chess Congress has been going since 1895 and is one of the most famous tournaments in the world. But financial issues are commonplace with s...

6 Aug 202033min

Twitter Facebook Twitch YouTube The boys are on holiday so this week Chris interviews Li Wu, who's part of the PokerStars online integrity team. Analytics and machine-learning crop up in addition to ...

30 Jul 202037min

Twitter Facebook Twitch YouTube How should chess market itself? Should it focus on the elements of the game or directly target particular groups of people? In addition to this very important discus...

23 Jul 202053min