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Displaying episodes 31 - 38 of 38 in total
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...
1: the real psychology of chess
JJ convinces Julia to start a podcast about chess and psychology. Julia explains what people mean when they say they're interested in "the psychology of chess," and wh...
chessfeels podcast: the trailer
chessfeels episode 1 drops March 15th. Beware the Ides of Julia's half-birthday! Leave us a five-star review and be entered into a drawing for a chance to win three fr...