Gil randomly comes across a chess tournament in the wild. He talks about a popular defense for the Queen's Gambit and the first ever candidates tournament.

2006 tournament:
https://lichess.org/study/jbHHLzax/PrXO8DhP

1950 candidates tournament games: 
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=81350

Gil randomly comes across a chess tournament in the wild. He talks about a popular defense for the Queen's Gambit and the first ever candidates tournament. 2006 tournament: https://lichess.org/study/jbHHLzax/PrXO8DhP 1950 candidates tournament games: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=81350

Ep. 8 The Boleslavsky Defense

Gil is an amateur chess player. He talks about the origins of chess openings and what happened this week in chess history.

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Ep. 8 The Boleslavsky Defense

Ep. 8 The Boleslavsky Defense