All Episodes
Displaying 21 - 40 of 42 in total
21: do you ever get nervous? (the anxiety episode, pt 2)
Julia and JJ continue their conversation about how anxiety can impact your chess. They talk about how to notice when your thoughts turn from 'observational' to more 'r...
20: do you love this shit? (the anxiety episode, pt 1)
Julia explains what anxiety really is, and JJ talks about how they see this manifest in several of their students' annotations of their own slow games. You can learn h...
19: the gang fixes lichess (with @NoJokeChris)
Julia and JJ are joined by Chris Callahan, the community organizer for LiChess.org. They discuss what LiChess does, and could do, about the addictiveness of blitz, how...
18: it was only a blitz, how did it end up like this?
Julia and JJ talk about The Cheating Scandal, against their better judgment.
17: you can't quit us, we're fired
Julia and JJ tackle the question of why competitive and amateur chess players alike make such a big deal out of quitting. What does it mean to 'quit chess' if it's sti...
16: the unsolicited advice episode (with Omar Mills of Chess Von Doom)
Julia and JJ talk about how you're probably using twitter wrong but why it's not your fault. Ft. Omar aka @chessvondoom, who is definitely using twitter right.
15: the adhd episode
Julia and JJ talk about their experiences in chess and life as two individuals with adhd, talk a bit about what neurodivergency is and why it matters from a psychologi...
14: oops! all julia rios!
JJ and Julia are joined by Julia's "name twin" @omgjulia, a podcaster, poet, narrator, writer, and, most importantly, non-chess player who has been mistakenly tagged i...
13: the prestigious mr dodgy interview
Julia and JJ interview the Alireza of twitter trolls: Mr Dodgy. They discuss different types of trolling, and how to be a clown on the internet without getting sucked ...
12: it's about time
Julia and JJ solve the problem of time trouble during OTB play.
11: convince me!
Julia and JJ solicit controversial opinions from their listeners on twitter, and proceed to debate the merits of these ideas.
10: #chessgoals (or: the ceiling is the roof)
Julia and JJ meet up in person to talk about goal-setting, the assumptions that go into goal-setting, and what all of you are doing wrong.
9: the future of chess is trans (with Sam Sharf of New College)
Floridian Sam Sharf joins JJ and Julia to discuss getting back into chess after coming out as trans, gaining 1400 uscf rating points in under a year, her experiences a...
8: what your chess opening says about your sex life (with NM Gopal Menon)
NSFW. NM Gopal Menon joins JJ and Julia to address the most important question for anybody building an opening repertoire: which openings fuck?
7: tilt, fizzle, and pop
JJ and Julia are not feeling it this week. And by 'it,' we mean playing chess. They take this opportunity to ask what the best way to overcome this fizzle is, and how ...
6: you are more than just your rating (you are also your blunders)
Why do so many chess players obsess over their ratings? What does this obsession look like, why is it often an impediment to progress, and what can we do to get over o...
5: are you an aggressive player? or just a bad person?
Julia and JJ question whether there is a connection between an aggressive style of play over the board and aggressively alienating personalities off the board. And, ev...
4: f*ck chess, all my homies play chess (with Jon Mackenzie of the Chess Pit Podcast)
Jon Mackenzie of The Chess Pit podcast joins Julia and JJ to discuss his ambivalence towards chess and chess fandom and explore the ways it can change and how it is al...
3: a chess player walks into a therapist's office...
What would therapy for a tournament chess player look like? JJ and Julia explore this question by doing therapy on JJ, attempting to get to the root causes of the psyc...
2: this is your brain on blitz
We're all obsessed with blitz, but could it actually be addictive? Julia weighs in as a clinical psychologist and assesses whether JJ's blitz behavior meets criteria f...