No Pawn Intended
Weekly podcast hosted by Jesse and Matt with chess news, improvement tips, and bad pawns.
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Jan 21, 2025 • 22min
#55 Gotham's Nightmare Tournament
This week we discuss IM Levy Rozman's difficult tournament and Tata Steel.
0:00 GM Levy?!!
6:23 Hans coaches Levy?
8:48 Tata Steel
12:30 Betting Lines
14:22 Leon Luke Mendoca
18:30 UFC (of course)
21:10 Win a course
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Jan 17, 2025 • 12min
#54 Danny's New Book
This week we go over the top 2024 prize winners and Danny's new memoir.
Pre-order Danny's Memoir
Danny's blog post
Top Prize Winners
Levy's new tournament
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0:00 Intro
0:34 Biggest Prize Winners 2024
6:01 Danny’s new book
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Jan 8, 2025 • 34min
#53 2024 Goalie Awards
This week we go over the top 2024 OTB performers as well as award 5 Goalie awards for 2024.
0:00 2024 Performance Ratings
10:48 Goalie Awards
12:10 Tournament of the Year
16:55 Best Content Creator
19:30 Best Year of Chess
21:05 Villain of the Year
26:45 Upcomer of the Year
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Jan 4, 2025 • 39min
#52 Reviewing 2024 + Rapid & Blitz Drama
In this episode we review our 2024. Including our best courses, best podcast episodes and upcoming courses. We also discuss the recent drama at the world rapid and blitz.
0:00 Top Podcast Episodes
4:45 Courses
9:10 Upcoming Courses
17:40 Rapid & Blitz Drama
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Dec 24, 2024 • 8min
#51 Merry Christmas from ChessGoals
Merry Christmas from ChessGoals!
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Dec 17, 2024 • 48min
#50 Ask Us Anything
This week we answer your questions and reflect on our first 50 episodes.
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How to meet b6 in the nimzo:
0:00 Intro
1:56 Audio-only listeners
3:48 e4 or d4?
6:03 What is an NM and IM
8:36 50 years from now
9:46 How to reach 2200
11:05 Improving middle and endgames
12:50 Nimzo w/ early b6
15:10 $50k giveaway
15:45 More middlegame courses
16:40 Chessgoals courses
21:40 Patterns or original thoughts
23:20 Stalemate
24:50 Avoiding fatigue
26:45 Next world champion
28:55 Gukesh's max rating
29:50 Endgame courses
30:40 Firouzja and Naka
31:48 Live tournament rating
33:09 Beating titled players
33:50 Nepo and Hans
34:20 Taking on students
35:25 Best way to drill openings
36:10 Strategy books
37:45 Underrated GOAT candidates
39:50 Beginner opening
40:30 Play like capablanca
41:50 How far from NM
43:20 Amateur's Mind
43:40 Pawn strategy course
44:02 100 Endgames you must know
44:40 GIVEAWAY
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Dec 10, 2024 • 26min
#49 Insane WCC Continues
This week Matt and Jesse go over our favorite moments from the WCC, how to improve the format, and our favorite courses.
0:00 Opening + 2024 Podcast
3:25 WCC Chat
11:50 Psychology & match strategy
15:42 Is magnus still world champ
18:12 WCC format suggestions
21:56 Favorite courses
Sesse
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Dec 4, 2024 • 41min
#48 Ben Johnson Tells All
Ben Johnson is the host of the Perpetual Chess Podcast and a great chess player as well. Today he talks to us about the WCC match, his chess upbringing and his favorite books.
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0:00 WCC
14:03 Ben’s Chess Journey
21:12 Ben’s improvement tips
27:24 Poker
34:29 Book recommendations
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Nov 26, 2024 • 25min
#47 WCC Live Chat - DING!!!!
Matt will be doing recaps for every round of the world championship. Tune in to episode 47 to see how Matt thinks the World Chess Championship will go down.
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Nov 19, 2024 • 1h 1min
#46 Strongchess on Lifting and Learning Openings
NM Todd Bryant gives us his best lifting tips, and teaches us his secret method to learning openings.
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