Ben Mezrich's "Checkmate" was a book I couldn't wait to finish, by which I mean it was terribly researched, floridly written, and could not be over soon enough. I am going to RANT about this on the pod

Came across this photo from the LA Times of Pavel Blatny's "aquatic simul" at the 1998 US Open

Throwback to the time Chris Bird had to hold an umbrella indoors to keep the sun out of Wesley So’s eyes #chess

Someone wrote a linguistics paper about Magnus Carlsen on the Joe Rogan show??

One finds some real gems in the academic literature about chess

We currently have three interviews with women's state champions which we will be releasing soon!

Hi everyone! We're three chess friends starting a podcast about women's chess champions! We interview women's champions and talk about women's chess history and current news! We'll also be posting some cool things we find about chess :)