Chess: The Full English Breakfast

The story of a World Champion playing the world's worst chess game, plus Photoshopping chaos into chess. Read AntonSquaredMe, Agent of Chaos at chess24.com @AntonSquaredMe on Twitter Thanks to Simon Williams for joining us. Check out GingerGM at: GingerGM.com and Simon Williams on YouTube Help us out by sharing the show with your friends and if you can spare a minute, please write us a review / leave a rating on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud: The Full English Breakfast on iTunes The Full English Breakfast on Stitcher The Full English Breakfast on Soundcloud Episode photo: Georgios Souleidis

A new start for The Full English Breakfast! We talk about The Simpsons' chess episode featuring World Champion Magnus Carlsen. Watch the episode at Fox.com: The Cad and the Hat Thanks to Simon Williams for joining us. Check out GingerGM at: GingerGM.com and Simon Williams on YouTube Help us out by sharing the show with your friends and if you can spare 2 minutes, please write us a review / leave a rating on iTunes: The Full English Breakfast on iTunes

The Full English Breakfast is back! We'll be relaunching new weekly episodes in a matter of days. Tell all your friends!

Ring in the new...with our year in review, part deux! Generation X alive and kicking. Gazza "the boss" of FIDE? Borislav Ivanov fake out and and female Champions.   Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/thefeb, where you'll find links related to the stories mentioned in the show.

Here's a year in review! Starting with Magnus Carlsen's run for the ultimate chess title. Wait, what!? The FEB is still a thing? Oh hell yeah! Part 1 (and it won't be a year to wait for part 2!)

No Bucharest for the weary! Bilbao, London, Israel too. (Below L-to-R: Alexander Grischuk, Stuart Conquest, Andy Costello. Credit: Macauley Peterson) Donate to the show to be entered into the RAFFLE grand prize! One point per dollar!

The Stevie G. behind the scenes report, with Grischuk, Leko and Memedyarov. (Below-right: Sergei Movsesian, Levon Aronian, Arshok Petrosian. Credit: Macauley Peterson) Donate to the show to be entered into THE BIG RAFFLE! Listen for details!

Lost on the cutting room floor, we wrap up the summer supertournament news. (Below: Fabiano Caruana, Sergei Karjakin. Credit: Macauley Peterson) Episode #25 coming soon with details of our new raffle razzle dazzle!

Alibanban, the ACP adjournment experience, Gordon oh-so close in Brit Champs (Below: Yuri Garrett, Gata Kamsky. Credit: Macauley Peterson) Listen NEXT SHOW for details of our summer raffle extravapalooza! All donations will be counted!

Magnus and McShane, 60 Tomashevsky Seconds, Fix Yasser Seirawan's Wiki (Below [clockwise from left]: Anatoly Karpov, Magnus Carlsen, Luke McShane, Yasser Seirawan, Evgeny Tomashevsky . Credit: SaintLouisChessClub.org, and Macauley Peterson) LAST CHANCE to buy Chess King training software with $49 discount coupon BREAKFAST and support the show! (www.Chess-King.com) Once you do, e-mail ChessKing[at]TheFEB.com to enter our summer prize drawing.

I'll take a World and US Championship, no fruit, and hold the draws please (Below: Viswanathan Anand, Hikaru Nakamura. Credit: Alexey Yushenkov [courtesy FIDE], and Macauley Peterson) Buy Chess King training software with $49 discount coupon BREAKFAST and support the show! (www.Chess-King.com) Once you do, e-mail ChessKing[at]TheFEB.com to enter our prize drawing.

Diplomacy, Peace in Switzerland, U.S. Fantasy, and Fix My Wiki! (Below: Vladimir Kramnik, Levon Aronian, Yannick Pelletier, Kirsan Ilymzhinov. Credit: Busts by Bertrand Freieslebe, photos by Macauley Peterson, cartoon Jose Diaz www.diazcartoons.nl) Buy Chess King training software with $49 discount coupon BREAKFAST and support the show! (www.Chess-King.com)

April Fools, ECU rules, Jakovenko schools (Below: Dimitry Jakovenko, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Credit: Arman Karakhanyan [courtesy of FIDE], Macauley Peterson) Buy Chess King with discount coupon BREAKFAST and support the show!

Reykjavik, Chess boxing FIDE, Gawain gunning for London, Cheparinov, chess etiquette. (Below: Malcolm Pein, Gawain Jones, Ivan Cheparinov. Credit: Macauley Peterson) Buy Chess King with discount coupon BREAKFAST and support the show!

Russians shake hands and go to the polls, Fabulous Fabiano, Growing Giri, and what's in a name? (Below: Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri, Mitt Romney. Credit: Macauley Peterson, Gage Skidmore [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons) Subscribe on the right! Don't miss an episode!

Super Grandmaster? Sadler sadly behind, and a Short Island Iced Tea for Hou Yifan! Yes please! (Below: Hou Yifan on The Rock, Matthew Sadler. Credit: Zeljka Malobabic, Macauley Peterson) Subscribe on the right! Don't miss the new semi-monthly show!

Wrapping up 2011, Big Vlad in London, Rybka muddies the water, double-time Donastia, and Nakamura's 'In Da House'. (Below: Nakamura, Kramnik, Spain, Rybka. Credit: Macauley Peterson, Google, Chessbase) Help us go semi-monthly by donating to the show!

Blindfold records, Tony Miles, 60 seconds with Boris Gelfand, Tal Memorial, Nigel Short, and SlyusarGate -- one sly shark! (Below: Boris Gelfand. Credit: Macauley Peterson) Donate to the show to win a Tal Memorial program autographed by Sergei Karjakin (x2)!

Introducing Pub Talk, 60 seconds with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, big news round-up including Nakamura and Kasparov, Bilbao's "toiletgate", and an interview with Judit Polgar. (Below: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Judit Polgar. Credit: Macauley Peterson) Produced in association with New In Chess Magazine.

Svidler and the World Cup, "noble" Navara, Chess Queen Kosteniuk, and Marc Arnold for the Kings. Underwriting support from the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, and the World Chess Hall of Fame. (Below: Alexandra Kosteniuk and Marc Arnold. Credit: Lori Mattler, Lace Photography)

From on-location in Sheffield, England, we talk to Michael Adams, Nigel Short, ECF President CJ de Mooi, plus Dortmund and Kasimdzhanov's "no draw" proposal.

Episode #10...a diamond says, "what the hell took you guys so long!?" ... The U.S. Champs, Nakamura-Ponomariov, and what's the matter with Kazan. Clips from Kamsky, Nakamura, Ponomariov, and Karjakin.

Number Nine...Number Nine...Number Nine... The FEB tackles Nice...errr...Monaco and the last (sniff, sniff) Amber Blindfold and Rapid tourney, PLUS, find out what's up with the European Championship, with clips from the most famous Frenchman, Sebastian Feller, Paco Vallejo Pons, and Peter Heine Nielsen.

Checking in on The F.E.B. fantasy chess team. Gordon's picks flounder, and Trent has a birthday.

French cheating, open letter feuds, Carlsen in New York, Cappelle la Grande, and the best team names from the World Amateur Team Championships. With special guest Malcolm Pein, plus a Kiss parody band's ode to bughouse and blitz. Don't  miss this one!

Wijk aan Zee coverage continues with Anish Giri, Wesley So, Luke McShane, David Navara and Adriana Krzymowska from Chess TV.

Exclusive audio from Wijk aan Zee, with Hikaru Nakamura, and Levon Aronian. Analysis of Nakamura's triumph by the seaside, Magnus Carlsen's "Wii" habits, plus Levon Aronian on life as an international Grandmaster. Subscribe to get Part 2 automatically when it's published.

The London Chess Classic, Magnus and company, 2800s galore, Gashimov wins Reggio Emilia, previewing Tata (NEE Corus), plus, trouble with the law redux, and we give away our first prize.

Jam packed with coverage of Levon Aronian's ascent to 2800, the Tal Memorial and World Blitz Championships, Magnus Carlsen's withdrawal from the World Championship Candidates matches, the U.S. Chess League -- we talk to IM Sam Shankland -- PLUS, chess players in trouble with the law, and setting simultaneous records...in Second Life! GM Boris Alterman: It was the test of the simul, with 12 players. For me the difficult part was just to control the avatar and to fly from board to board then to adjust board and to focus, then only to move a piece. The simul was around 2.5 hours, when I played around 15-20 moves only. In ICC I would have finished 50 ga...mes [in that time]. However SL wanted me to play another simul in a few months when they are planning to improve all the technology and logistics.

Back by popular demand ("popular" in inverted commas -- at least our mums like it!) it's The Full English Breakfast, with Lawrence Trent and Stephen Gordon. In this episode, Trent & Gordon wax poetic on the Olympiad, FIDE elections, Bilbao, Magnus Carlsen's fashion career, and some dude named Will Taylor. If you like the show, don't forget to subscribe!

From the second pilot episode (original airdate March 25, 2009): F.E.B. #2 - In episode deux, the traveling IMs (NB: Gordon just got his 3rd GM norm, so, GM-elect!) wax poetic on Linares, Mamedyarov’s PR problem, Anand, Amber, blindfold chess, and playing in front of your parents. A Full English Breakfast is part of your nutritious Chess menu.

From the original two-show pilot (original airdate: February 25, 2009): F.E.B. #1 - In the inaugural episode, the pair of inimitable IMs tackle the Aeroflot scandal, Kamsky-Topalov, and Linares. (Running time: 25 minutes)