L2C 029: Our First Annual Chessy Awards for 2025 Performance

It is awards season and we thought it would be great fun to start the annual tradition we nicknamed the Cheesy's. Never one to leave a bad idea alone, we did it. So with no further introduction, here are the Chessy Awards for 2025. Let the arguments begin.

And don't forget to enter your team selection into our Fantasy Chess League for the upcoming Candidates tournament. The rules are posted on our social media on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.

Please let us know if you are going to try this and please please let us know if you do and how it goes. We would love to hear all about it.

PS Bill wants to do a way off topic podcast episode based on music and can "weakly" tie it to chess background music ideas. Let us know if there is any interest in this.

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For a link to the podcast, please use: https://tinyurl.com/TheChessys2026

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L2C 028: Our Chess Inspirations and Aspirations

With the upcoming 2026 Candidates Tournament that will decide who will compete against Gukesh to win the Chess World Championship later this year, we thought we would go into some of the players that we find to be inspirational to our games, some of the playing styles we want to have/wish we had etc.

And don't forget to enter your team selection into our Fantasy Chess League for the upcoming Candidates tournament. The rules are posted on our social media on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.

Please let us know if you are going to try this and please please let us know if you do and how it goes. We would love to hear all about it.

PS Bill wants to do a way off topic podcast episode based on music and can "weakly" tie it to chess background music ideas. Let us know if there is any interest in this.

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For a link to the podcast, please use: https://tinyurl.com/Late2Chess027

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L2C 027: Our 2026 Candidates Fantasy Chess League - plus a bit more

Since we had a shorter episode this week, we wanted to give you a double dose of chess content this week and exceed our weekly goal of 1 hour of podcast goodness.

Bill introduces the good Doctor to one of his favorite books that has helped him in many areas of his career and life. Then we apply this technique to chess, we are a ches spodcast after all. What do we use to demonstrate the technique? The good Doctor sets his goal of being a DCP and then comes up with his 3 highest leverage efforts to support this goal.

Please let us know if you are going ot try this and please please let us know if you do and how it goes. We would love to hear all about it.

And don't forget to enter your team selection into our Fantasy Chess League for the upcoming Candidates tournament. The rules are posted on our social media on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.

Did we get something wrong? Were we remiss in not asking a question or discuss and area you are interested in?

Let us know at [email protected] If you have any thoughts, topics and/or guest ideas, or solutions, please let us know.

Welcome to the board.

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For a link to the podcast, please use: https://tinyurl.com/Late2Chess027

#chess #chesstournament #chesstournaments #TaoofChess #mostExcellentRoadTo1500 #OurBumpyRoad #roadto1500Elo #roadtoDecentChess #DCP #decentChessPlayer #chessInstruction #adultimprover #adultimprovers #chessClub #clubChess #tournamentChess #learnchess #learningchess #chesslearner #TheDoctorOnTheSofa #BillOnTheSofa #fantasyChess #fantasyCandidatesTournament

L2C 026: How to Improve in Chess - And Many Other Areas of Life/Work

Since we had a shorter episode this week, we wanted to give you a double dose of chess content this week and exceed our weekly goal of 1 hour of podcast goodness.

Bill introduces the good Doctor to one of his favorite books that has helped him in many areas of his career and life. Then we apply this technique to chess, we are a ches spodcast after all. What do we use to demonstrate the technique? The good Doctor sets his goal of being a DCP and then comes up with his 3 highest leverage efforts to support this goal.

Please let us know if you are going ot try this and please please let us know if you do and how it goes. We would love to hear all about it.

PS Bill wants to do a way off topic podcast episode based on music and can "weakly" tie it to chess background music ideas. Let us know if there is any interest in this.

Did we get something wrong? Were we remiss in not asking a question or discuss and area you are interested in?

Let us know at [email protected] If you have any thoughts, topics and/or guest ideas, or solutions, please let us know.

Welcome to the board.

We hope you enjoy the show!

For a link to the podcast, please use: https://tinyurl.com/Late2Chess026

#chess #chesstournament #chesstournaments #TaoofChess #mostExcellentRoadTo1500 #OurBumpyRoad #roadto1500Elo #roadtoDecentChess #DCP #decentChessPlayer #chessInstruction #adultimprover #adultimprovers #chessClub #clubChess #tournamentChess #learnchess #learningchess #chesslearner #TheDoctorOnTheSofa #BillOnTheSofa

L2C 025: Listener Questions - Ep. 1

On this terribly fun episode, we discuss a recent series of listener questions. If you want your questions to be the subject of an upcoming episode, please let us know. These episodes are great fun.

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For a link to the podcast, please use: https://tinyurl.com/Late2Chess025

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L2C 024: LadyBug Joins us From the ChessDojo

We are joined by another adult learner from the ChessDojo for this episode. She played when she was younger and she resumed playing again last year and has progressed steadily since then. We cover her story and wander around aimlessly throughout the episode.

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For a link to the podcast, please use: https://tinyurl.com/Late2Chess024

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L2C 023: Sofa Time with The Doctor ep. 1?

We often work together on our games and thinking about chess. Here is a sample of what we do with (to) each other. If you like it, we can even start this as an ongoing mini-series.

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For a link to the podcast, please use: https://tinyurl.com/Late2Chess023

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L2C 022: Sweatgland - A True DCP

Sweatgland from the Chess Dojo joins us for a great episode. We talk about his chess history and his road to where he is currently We also meander around (to the surprise of no one) and discuss wide variety of chess training, growth of players, methods, etc. And far be it for us not to take advantage of his knowledge of our games and find out what he sees as our next areas of focus and growth. We also bestow up him two Chess Titles from our podcast.

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For a link to the podcast, please use: https://tinyurl.com/Late2Chess022

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L2C 021: The Tao of Chess - Chapter 2: The Pieces

We continue our discussion on the Tao of Chess with the second chapter covering several of the principles related to the pieces. We had a bit more trouble discussing this one and that may reflect some limitations of our current game understanding. Have anything we missed? Please let us know and we can pass it on.

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For a link to the podcast, please use: https://tinyurl.com/Late2Chess020

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L2C 020: The Importance of Confidence In Chess

After last weekend's tournament, the good Doctor said we should have a short episode on the importance of confidence in chess. So what started as a short bonus episode quickly grew into a full fledged episode. Apparently we may be long winded, lol.

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For a link to the podcast, please use: https://tinyurl.com/Late2Chess019

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