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Your Week in Chess
by Alex O'Connor and Jordan Vasseur
We are two chess lifers turning on microphones during our conversations! Sometimes we're trying to get better, sometimes we are trying to escape normal lifes, but we are always trying to have fun!
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14
A Brief Encounter of the Chess Kind
Wooooohooooooooeeeeee
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13
Your Week in (chess) Drama
Chess, movies, fun
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12
The Kermit Has No Clothes
We shouldn't be allowed to be this cute and funny
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11
Chess Noire
Inside, a man nursing a glass of something strong, the ice clinking like dice in a backroom game. His eyes, the color of week-old coffee, are fixated on a chessboard, the pieces locked in a silent, deadly tango. We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to being you Chess Noire, a mysterious chess podcast!
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10
Impossible Questions About Life
We only leave so we can come WAY back baby!
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9
Chess Tourney = Bodybuilding
Jordan is solo today with an instant reaction to a tournament game played and recorded a couple months ago! Come for the weight lifting analogy and stay for the dive inside the stress of a weekend long tournament! Here are the moves if you want to laugh at my loss! 1. e4 e6 2. d4 b6 3. Nc3 Bb7 4. Nf3 Bb4 5. Bd2 Bxc3 6. Bxc3 Bxe4 7. d5 Nf6 8. dxe6 O-O 9. exf7+ Rxf7 10. Ng5 Re7 11. Bxf6 gxf6 12. Nxe4 Rxe4+ 13. Be2 Qe7 14. O-O Rxe2 15. Qd5+ Kg7 16. Qxa8 Nc6 17. Qc8 Ne5 18. Qxc7 h5 19. Qc3 Ng4 20. Rae1 Qd6 21. Qg3 Qd2 22. Rxe2 Qxe2 23. h3 f5 24. hxg4 fxg4 25. Qb3 Kg6 26. Qd3+ {*}
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Precambrian Chess
Whooooopieeeee we are talking about chess and hiking and being bad at technology and are just generally have a great time! Correspondence: https://www.chess.com/game/daily/576749449
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Magnus Carlsen is a Crybaby
Albeit a GOATED Crybaby
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Over the Board Chess Lyfe
This is a fun podcast for fun people!
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5
Victorian Sickness
Guys! Do you like fun! I like fun and it's jam packed in this episode. Jordan went to his second ever chess tournament and did okay! He's also dealing with the aftermath of a sickness which turns laughs into coughs! Alex has taken his English opening out to pasture in favor of e4! He also got to play a satisfying Uno reverse card against a BMing opponent. Here is the article discussed: https://www.curbed.com/article/club-chess-maneros-of-mulberry.html
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Chessenheimer
The review of Oppenheimer YOU have been waiting for! We construct the greatest piece of chess-cow crossover based art in the world! Get in here, we are having a great time! We definitely worked overtime hours for BS pay in this weeks extra long correspondence game: https://www.chess.com/game/daily/548614131
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Chess is a Winter Activity TBH
The boys are enjoying their summer! Jordan by the pool with a drink in hand, and Alex hiking mountains with a toddler strapped to his back! Alex wins this weeks correspondence game in classic style - shutting Jordan's belligerent attack Correspondence game: https://www.chess.com/game/daily/545965137
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Is Chess Just Enraging?
Alex shares a strategy to decrease the stress of online chess. While Jordan ventures further out in the real world of over the board. The boys discuss a reddit post where a fellow chess play has let rage consume his experience.
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Playing Chess in Person is a Joy
Jordan talks about his very first over the board chess tournament. While Alex navigates the impact of his second child on his investment in chess.
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How many episodes does Your Week in Chess have?
Your Week in Chess currently has 14 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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We are two chess lifers turning on microphones during our conversations! Sometimes we're trying to get better, sometimes we are trying to escape normal lifes, but we are always trying to have fun!
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Your Week in Chess is created and hosted by Alex O'Connor and Jordan Vasseur.
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