Dojo Talks: A Chess Podcast

By IM Kostya Kavutskiy, IM David Pruess, GM Jesse Kraai

The official podcast of ChessDojo (IM Kostya Kavutskiy, IM David Pruess, & GM Jesse Kraai). Most episodes are streamed live to twitch.tv/chessdojo.

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Dojo Talks: A Chess Podcast episodes:

May 27, 2025 EP 153 | How To Improve Your Positional Play w/ GM Aagaard
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0:00 Intro
1:51 How to improve your positional play
6:05 Book recommendations
8:18 Recognizing weaknesses in positional play
12:22 How to work with a coach
15:48 Killer Chess Training Camp
20:15 How Aagaard learned positional play
24:12 Certainty of action vs. certainty of outcome
26:06 Working with Sam -Shankland
29:58 Improving specific aspects of positional play
31:52 Certainty of action vs. certainty of outcome
35:16 How much should adult improvers play classical?
39:35 Micro-pains
45:46 How Renier Castellanos made GM
50:11 What's the best process for reviewing your games?
56:10 Solving simple tactics vs. difficult problems
57:28 What is calculation
1:05:17 Simple tactics vs. difficult problems
1:11:56 The #1 rule of training
1:14:00 The cycle of improvement
1:19:08 Whats next for Killer Chess Training
Check out GM Aagaard at https://killerchesstraining.com!
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Thumbnail photo: Eric Rosen
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...more
1h 23min
May 15, 2025 EP 152 | Visualization and Aphantasia
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IM David Pruess has long been famous for reaching a high level in chess while having aphantasia. We talk about how this could be and what it says about visualization in chess.
Visualization test - https://aphantasia.com/study/vviq/
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...more
56min
April 19, 2025 EP 151 | Teaching Chess To Kids
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GM Jesse Kraai, IM David Pruess, and IM Kostya Kavutskiy are joined by NM Matan Prilletensky to discuss the details of how to teach chess to children, and what people should know when they're considering teaching chess to kids.
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#chess #chesscoach
...more
53min
April 18, 2025 EP 151 | Online vs Offline Thinking: What Chess Shows
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GM Jesse Kraai discusses what stats tell us about online vs offline thinking.
Books mentioned: Thinking Fast and Slow, Kahnemann, https://amzn.to/3En0Eoo
Deep Work, Newport, https://amzn.to/3RdPfKB
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#chess #chessmaster
0:00 Chess and Cognitive Psychology
1:21 Thinking in Online Chess vs OTB Chess
17:50 The Role of Age
18:34 Takeaways For Chess Players
...more
20min
April 16, 2025 EP 150 | DOJOVERSARY 5 - Origin Story
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IM Kostya Kavutskiy, IM David Pruess, and GM Jesse Kraai celebrate 5 years of ChessDojo with episode 150! ChessDojo's first video launched on March 14, 2020. The sensei talk about how the Dojo started, how it's evolved, and what's coming next in today's episode of Dojo Talks, the ChessDojo podcast.
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0:00 Intro
0:30 Origin Story
23:39 What's Next For Dojo
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#chess #chesspodcast
...more
45min
April 14, 2025 EP 149 | The Chess Revolution w/ Peter Doggers
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IM Kostya Kavutskiy, IM David Pruess, and GM Jesse Kraai talk about the book The Chess Revolution with guest journalist Peter Doggers on today's episode of Dojo Talks, the ChessDojo podcast!
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#chess #chessbook
...more
1h 1min
April 01, 2025 EP 148 | State of Scholastic Chess with WFM Elizabeth Spiegel
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The ChessDojo sensei GM Jesse Kraai and IM David Pruess sit down with WFM Elizabeth Speigel and talk about the state of scholastic chess in today's episode of Dojo Talks, the ChessDojo podcast.
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#chess #chessmaster
CHAPTERS
0:00 Scholastic Chess with WFM Elizabeth Spiegel
15:33 Pedagogical Goals
22:20 Chess as School Subject
26:10 Brooklyn Castle and Bringing Chess Into Schools
32:00 Chess and Deep Thinking
39:13 The Impact of Chess on Children
44:16 Do More Girls Play Chess Than Before?
46:46 Strongest Players from WFM Spiegel's Program
...more
52min
March 25, 2025 EP 147 | FIDE Ratings & The Stats of Cheating (ft. Dr. Kenneth Regan)
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The Dojo talks with Dr. Kenneth Regan, who provides an analysis of FIDE ratings since the March 2024 rating boost.
Also discussed is the topic of cheating -- how often it comes up and what it takes to catch one.
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#chess
CHAPTERS
0:00 FIDE Rating Change with Dr. Kenneth Regan
11:43 Rating Distortion and Performance Ratings
47:50 Detecting Chess Cheating
...more
1h 6min
March 14, 2025 EP 146 | Is Chess 99% Tactics?
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GM Jesse Kraai, IM David Pruess, and IM Kostya Kavutskiy talk about chess tactics and whether chess is really 99% tactics in today's episode of Dojo Talks, the ChessDojo podcast.
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Shopping through our link is a great way to support the Dojo. We earn a small affiliate % but at no cost to you.
Website: https://chessdojo.club
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/chessdojo
Discord: https://discord.gg/sUUh8HD
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#chesstactics #chessstrategy
CHAPTERS
0:00 Is Chess 99% Tactics?
14:22 Calculation vs Evaluation
31:10 Strategy and Story
40:52 Strategy vs Positional Play
49:31 100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know
51:37 What's Most Important for Under 1250 Elo?
54:47 Chess and Go
...more
57min
March 07, 2025 EP 145 | Does Freestyle Chess Have A Future?
GM Jesse Kraai, IM David Pruess, and IM Kostya Kavutskiy discuss the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, and recent and ongoing issues between FIDE and Freestyle Chess in today's episode of Dojo Talks, the ChessDojo podcast!
Get ChessDojo's first book, How to Analyze Your Games, here: https://amzn.to/3Ds5r78
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Want to support the channel?
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Find all of our chess book & supplies recommendations (& more!) on our Amazon storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/chessdojo
Shopping through our link is a great way to support the Dojo. We earn a small affiliate % but at no cost to you.
Website: https://chessdojo.club
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/chessdojo
Discord: https://discord.gg/sUUh8HD
Twitter: https://twitter.com/chessdojo
Patreon: https://patreon.com/chessdojo
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chessdojo
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chessdojo
Podcast: https://chessdojotalks.podbean.com
TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@/chessdojoclips
#chess #chesstraining
Chapters:
CHAPTERS
0:00 Freestlye Chess, FIDE, and Magnus
2:40 Do Fans Like Freestyle Chess?
8:36 Will Kids Get Into Freestyle Chess?
16:54 Looking at the Data
26:18 Magnus Carlsen and Freestyle Chess
54:40 Wrap-Up
...more
58min

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