Episodes

Sunday May 12, 2019
054 - May Musings
Sunday May 12, 2019
Sunday May 12, 2019
Episode 54 - May Musings
The FEB gang share a bottle of wine and check in on the World Championship, Magnus Carlsen, online blitz grudge matches with Americans and what's (not) rotten in the state of Denmark. Dormant but not dead, subscribe to the podcast to get our irreverent if irregular inquiries into the state of chess and the chess world!
Simon Williams appears courtesy GingerGM.com
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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.
Simon Williams appears courtesy GingerGM.com
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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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Tuesday Jun 20, 2017
047 - John C. Urschel, NFL or Nf3?
Tuesday Jun 20, 2017
Tuesday Jun 20, 2017
Trent tackles a unique American NFL football pro and M.I.T PhD candidate, whose middle name may as well be "chess".
Simon Williams [name-checked] courtesy GingerGM.com.
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Monday Jun 12, 2017
046 - I’ll Raise You a Grandmaster
Monday Jun 12, 2017
Monday Jun 12, 2017
It's Awonder, grandmaster, why no one did CharityChess.org before!
Simon Williams appears courtesy GingerGM.com.
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Tuesday Jun 06, 2017
045 - Grumpy Gorm, Definitely NOT a Cheater
Tuesday Jun 06, 2017
Tuesday Jun 06, 2017
Grappling with anonymous online chess cheats.
Photo: Ray Morris-Hill
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Monday May 29, 2017
044 - Here’s Lookin’ at Hou, Kid
Monday May 29, 2017
Monday May 29, 2017
An interview with former Women's World Champion and current number 1, GM Hou Yifan, on sexism in chess and her final round protest in Gibraltar.
Simon Williams appears courtesy GingerGM.com
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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
Simon Williams appears courtesy of GingerGM.com
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Saturday May 06, 2017
041 - Hair Brahs
Saturday May 06, 2017
Saturday May 06, 2017
Magnus Carlsen berates Lawrence at the GRENKE Chess Classic, and Simon finds a beard brah in Reykjavik, plus Ben Johnson's Perpetual Chess Pod.
Photos courtesy GrenkeChessClassic.de and GrenkeChessOpen.de
Simon Williams appears courtesy of GingerGM.com
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Monday Apr 24, 2017
040 - Russian Attack
Monday Apr 24, 2017
Monday Apr 24, 2017
On the road at the Grenke Chess Open, Lawrence and Macauley speak with GMs Nils Grandelius, Maxim Matlakov and tournament winner Nikita Vitiugov, plus Nick Murphy on life as a chess consultant in film and theatre.
Photo by Georgious Souleidis
Simon Williams appears courtesy of GingerGM.com
Nick Murphy can be reached at NickMurphy.info or on Twitter @MrNickMurphy
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