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Late 2 Chess — 71 episodes

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L2C 068: Getting Better vs Winning vs Elo Pursuit - and some of the hazards of each

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L2C 074: Emergency Episode - Bill's Latest Tournament (Debacle)

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L2C 071: Emergency Episode - Our 2026 Gift Bag Contest

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L2C 070: NM Robert Ramirez - Chess Coaching Deep Dive - Part 1 of...

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L2C 067: Prescription for Chess Improvement - Listener Code Name Grasshopper

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L2C 066: How to Study Puzzles and tactics to Actually Improve Your Chess Game

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L2C 064: Our Chess Prescriptions For Each Other

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L2C 065: Listener Emails and Bill's Latest OTB Tournament at Marywood

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L2C 063: Dr Can Kabadayi on Learning Chess

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L2C 062: Our Top Ten Things That Did Not Help Our Chess - Yet

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L2C 061: Patience in Chess

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L2C 060: Tao of Chess and Bill's Latest OTB Tournament

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L2C 059: IM Kostya Kavutskiy

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L2C 058: AI Assistance in Chess Improvement and Listener Questions

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L2C 057: Chess Camp with the Chess Dojo

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L2C 056: Visualization and Mental Processing with Aiden Rayner

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L2C 055: Welcome Back - To The Doctor and OTB Chess for Bill

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L2C 054: How to Annotate and Analyze Your Game (101) with Claude Fried

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L2C 053: Bill on the Sofa - State of the Union Update as of July 2026

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L2C 052: Claude Fried Returns to Answer (Some) of Bill's Dumb Questions

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L2C 051: Space: Our Tao of Chess Book Series Continues

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L2C 050: Non-Chess Factors to Improve Your Game

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L2C 049: Speed Runs / Slow Runs

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L2C 048: Hanging Pawns

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L2C 047: The Tao of Chess - Pawn Structures

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L2C 046: Freestyle Chess, Fischer Random, and Chess 960 - part 1

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L2C 045: Blitz and Bullet for Chess improvement

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L2C 044: All About the ChessNoteR

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L2C 043: All About the Chess Dojo

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L2C 042: Best Books and Courses - Volume 1

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L2C 041: Chess Etiquette

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L2C 040: The Candidates Tournament 2026 - Our Wrap-up

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L2C 039: The Tao of Chess - Chapter 7 - Material

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L2C 038: Days 8-10 of This Year's Candidates Tournament

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L2C 037: Claude Fried

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L2C 036: Days 5-7 of This Year's Candidates Tournament

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L2C 035: Days 1-4 of This Year's Candidates Tournament

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L2C 034: Learning Chess "Chessable"-type Instruction vs Book Learning - Advantages & Disadvantages

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L2C 033: Our Picks for The Fantasy 2026 Candidates Chess Tournament

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L2C 032: The Tao of Chess - 3 More Chapters

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L2C 031: Our Views on Chessiverse.com - So Far

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L2C 030: Our 2026 Candidates Tournament Player intro and Fantasy Tournament Intro

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L2C 029: Our First Annual Chessy Awards for 2025 Performance

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L2C 028: Our Chess Inspirations and Aspirations

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L2C 027: Our 2026 Candidates Fantasy Chess League - plus a bit more

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L2C 026: How to Improve in Chess - And Many Other Areas of Life/Work

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L2C 025: Listener Questions - Ep. 1

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L2C 024: LadyBug Joins us From the ChessDojo

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L2C 023: Sofa Time with The Doctor ep. 1a?

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L2C 022: Sweatgland - A True DCP

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L2C 021: The Tao of Chess - Chapter 2: The Pieces

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L2C 020: The Importance of Confidence In Chess

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L2C 019: GM Jesse Kraai - Our First Ever Guest

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L2C 016: Book Review: The Tao of Chess - part 1

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L2C 018: Tournament Recap of the 25th Annual Mountaineer Open

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L2C 017: Emergency/Bonus episode - The Good Doctor's Pre Tournament Prep for This Weekend

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L2C 015: Our Most Excellent Road to 1500 and Beyond - Part 2

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L2C 014: Our Most Excellent Road to 1500 and Beyond - Part 1

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L2C 013: The Magic of Development (in Chess)

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L2C 012: OTB Review – Bill Played a Tournament and Then at the Club

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L2C-11: Nerves In Chess with Dr Pop Pop

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L2C-10: Time Sucks (to avoid) In Chess Improvement

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L2C-09: Tournament Recap Part 2 with Dr Pop Pop

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L2C-08: Tournament - First and Latest - Better Audio

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L2C-07: Top Ten Things That Helped Me - The Final Four

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L2C-06: Top Ten Things That Helped Me - Game Annotations, Books, and Long Games

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L2C-05: Top Ten Things That Helped Me - YouTube and Podcasts

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L2C-04: Top Ten Things That Helped Me - The ChessDojo

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L2C-03: Rediscovering Chess

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L2C-02: Bill's Chess History - Pre-2025

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L2C-01: Why Does This Podcast Exist