34. Una O Boyle: Chess Woman Candidate Master

Episode 34 is an interview with Woman Candidate Master Úna O Boyle conducted by the most important interviewers yet to appear on The Ireland Podcast.

Conversation includes: introductions; early years of chess; becoming a Women’s Candidate Master; tricks; over the board vs. online; how they learnt how to play chess; hyperactivity and chess; Sonia O’Sullivan; the basic principles of chess; the opening, the middle game and the end game; Punk Chess (Bullet Games); chess clocks; Bobby Fisher; chess in sports days; chess boxing; Rumble In The Jungle - Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman; attacking vs. defending; the best chess game and the most memorable; clock increments; crying and grief; Jocko Willink’s advice regarding grief; crying as a release; crying in sport; Paul Gascoigne; Spitting Image; playing an Italian game and gambits; sacrificing; the lamb of God; chess playing and braininess; Mikhail Tal; chess books; ficheall; Úna’s workshops; the quality of chocolate; Úna being the embodiment of chess, gaelic and music; the benefits of chess for children; children with dyslexia and dyspraxia; chess being art, science or maths; Úna being a chess artist; the performance of music being between art, maths and science; the relationship between music and chess; makeshift chessboards and pieces; a technical chess question; the Scotch opening; being a messer; the European Junior Championships being held in Ireland for the first time; online chess engines; playing younger players; Herbert Scarry; Judit Polgár; chess being male-dominated; Brendan Buckley; advice for younger chess players; chess puzzles; playing over the board; chess in Ireland today; the Ukranian influence on chess; enjoying chess; winning games and winning wisdom; Uncle Alfred as well as other topics.

Relevant Links

www.chessinschools.ie

Buy Úna’s books

www.instagram.com/hyperboreamusic

Additional Links

"The Rumble in the Jungle" Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman 30.10.1974

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