Episodes

Sunday Sep 30, 2018
053 - FIDE-fi-fo-fum
Sunday Sep 30, 2018
Sunday Sep 30, 2018
Episode 53 - FIDE-fi-fo-fum
We go for gold with a preview of the Chess Olympiad in Batumi and the FIDE Presidential elections. Plus unplanned banter about Bitcoin and Twitch streams. Are players too lazy for politics? And 'Oh Capablanca' is music to our tears.
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Wednesday May 09, 2018
052 - The Full English Break
Wednesday May 09, 2018
Wednesday May 09, 2018
Episode 52 - The Full English Break...
WTF, where have we been? Caruana and the Candidates, Agon limited success, and FIDE politics, plus hypnosis, bitcoin and a whatever else comes out with the help of a bottle of wine.
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Tuesday Jun 27, 2017
048 - Ivana be URS
Tuesday Jun 27, 2017
Tuesday Jun 27, 2017
IM Malcolm Pein on the new Grand Chess Tour, plus Nick Murphy has a date with The Mating Game co-author IM Jovanka Houska.
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Nick Murphy can be reached at NickMurphy.info or on Twitter @MrNickMurphy
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Sunday May 14, 2017
042 - Radek Shaks Shamkir
Sunday May 14, 2017
Sunday May 14, 2017
Cheating paranoia in the case of Mihaela Sandu resolved after two years, and Polish #1 Radoslaw ("Radek") Wojtaszek tells us about the Shamkir tournament and the key to Shakhriyar Mamedyarov's success.
Photo courtesy ShamkirChess.com
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Monday Apr 17, 2017
039 - And So it Goes
Monday Apr 17, 2017
Monday Apr 17, 2017
Observations on the U.S. Championships, and Kirsan keeps his job —FIDE V.P. Beatriz Marinello fills us in on that "extraordinary" Presidential board meeting.
Photo by Lennart Ootes, for the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis
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Saturday Apr 01, 2017
037 - Playing by Whose Rules?
Saturday Apr 01, 2017
Saturday Apr 01, 2017
A case of two Iranian teenagers banned from playing for (or in) their own country. Plus an "endspiel" on the Presidential cock up of the week (no not that one).
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Photo by @AntonSquaredMe