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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Sandu revisited, and what's the matter with the Moscow Grand Prix.

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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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