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!

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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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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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Posted in The Show, chess.com, john urschel on Jun 20th, 2017
Trent tackles a unique American NFL football pro and M.I.T PhD candidate, whose middle name may as well be "chess".

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It's Awonder, grandmaster, why no one did CharityChess.org before!

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Grappling with anonymous online chess cheats.

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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.

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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.

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Magnus Carlsen berates Lawrence at the GRENKE Chess Classic, and Simon finds a beard brah in Reykjavik, plus Ben Johnson's Perpetual Chess Pod.

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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.

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