Ben Johnson (solo pod): Synthesizing the Key Lessons About Chess Role Models from Season 3's Guests
The final episode of Season 3 of How to Chess is a rare solo pod, where Ben succinctly summarizes the key lessons about chess role models th...
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WIM Luciana Morales on Learning from Queens of the Chess Board
Luciana Morales is a Peruvian Woman International Master with a resume full of impressive accomplishements! She has won the Pan-American You...
IM Alex Astaneh on How His Coach Accidentally Taught him Board Visualization Skills
Alex Astaneh is an Irish International Master, chess coach, and author. Astaneh's chess journey began at a young age, and he quickly found s...
GM Jorden van Foreest on What Kasparov's Books Taught him about Attacking...and the Tarrasch Defense
Jorden van Foreest is a well accomplished Grandmaster from the Netherlands. Some of the highlights of his career includes winning the Dutch...
NM Laura Smith on Her Chess Role Models
Laura Smith is an American chess teacher and educator. She began learning the game at the fairly young age of 5, taught by her father. By th...
TheOnoZone on His Endgame Role Models
Ono is an Adult Improver, chess blogger, chess podcaster and chess coach. Some say he is obsessed with chess. But, what does he have to say...
IM Alex Banzea on What he Learned from One of Romania's All-Time Greats
Alex Banzea is a Romanian International Master, growing Twitch streamer, YouTuber, chess coach, and acclaimed Chessable author. Since early...
IM Yuriy Krykun on the Importance of FInding Local Chess Role Models
International Master Yuriy Krykun is a chess player, coach, and author. This rising star of the chess world has shined so bright that he’s g...
GM Ivan Sokolov on Coaching and Mentoring and What he Learned from Other Chess Legends
Ben Johnson talks role models in chess with gold-winning player/trainer/coach, GM Ivan Sokolov. Ivan Sokolov is a Grandmaster, author, coach...
Teaser- How to Chess Season 3 Starts Friday!
Just a quick announcement that Season 3 is finally here! The topic of this season is chess role models.
CM Vjekoslav Nemec- How to Improve Your Speed Chess Game
CM Vjekoslav "Vjeko" Nemec is a Chessable Author, a chess blogger and journalist, and a fierce blitz player with ratings over 2600 on both L...
GM Johan Hellsten- How to Analyze Your Own Chess Games
This week's guest on How to Chess is Chessable author and renowned trainer GM Johan Hellsten. He joins the podcast this week to share some t...
NM Bryan Tillis- How to Remember Opening Sequences
NM Bryan Tillis is a popular Chessable Author, an accredited FIDE trainer, and the founder of the Florida based chess academy, Palm Beach Ch...
GM Sahaj Grover- How to Approach Studying the Endgame
GM Sahaj Grover is an Indian born, South Africa based chess trainer and Chessable Author. He amassed many youth titles, and was the 2017 and...
Omar Mills- Lessons Learned from My First OTB Chess Tournament
Omar Mills is a Florida based Product Manager at Disney parks by day, and a recently converted chess die-hard by night. As a follow up to Ne...
Cognitive Scientist and USCF Master Dr. Christopher Chabris on the Importance of Having "Chess Culture"
Dr. Christopher Chabris is a renowned cognitive scientist and the best-selling co-author of the book The Invisible Gorilla . In this convers...
Adult Improver Andrew Webb on the Key Lessons he Learned from his Chess Coaches
Andrew Webb works in Product Management for a software company and is also a "chess dad" and a dedicated chess amateur who has managed to ga...
NM Han Schut on Getting to the Root Cause of Your Chess Mistakes
USCF National Master, Chess Steps trainer, and Chessable Author Han Schut on how to learn from your chess mistakes. Links: Han Schut's Chess...
How to Chess Season 2 is coming soon!
I briefly discuss the pending return of How to Chess !! :)
HowToChess 21- FM Dalton Perrine on Common Calculation Mistakes and How to Improve Your Defensive Skills
Chessable author and Founder of Next Level Coaching, FM Dalton Perrine joins the pod to discuss an oft-neglected aspect of chess thinking- h...