Master of One

Episode 39 - East Atlanta Chess Championship 4

0:00 Intro
0:10 - Tournament Recap
41 Players 
Championship - 1st - Jonathan Hrach/Sankar Jonnalagadda
U1800 - 1st - Spencer Chmielewski 
U1400 - Sahana Santosh 
Performance Bonuses
Sankar Jonnalagadda
Saharsh Santosh 
Spencer Chmielewski
“Chris Chambers/Luis Anglada”
Altucher Magnus Dinner
East Atlanta Tournaments are hard/How to get better
Post Lunch Break/Beloved are you listening?
The Kid who almost flagged 
Dennis M Bryan 
Improvements since last tournament
Set up the night before 
Week of 
Being more welcoming 
Future Improvements
Timeline!!/Prewrite everything2 day 
Karaoke/After Party/Lunch
Grandmasters
Wednesdays
Online pairings/Website
Bossman Carter 
It’s just business 

50:55 - Chess Training 
Gordon Ryan + John Danaher
10 hours this past week
Trusting Coach
I don’t have a God memory/I’m a fighter 
Being a good student vs. Being a bad student 
Habit Stacking 
Watching hella videos/Karpov Kasparov
Making Chess cool

• Big Vlad
• The Stingahs
• Goosey 
• Hurt/Prison ****
• Bizzle Wizzle 
• The Gingerbread man 
• Munch
• Big Bobby 

Going old school 
Waking up early 
Working hard is good for swagger
If you can’t joke about it, is it worth it 

1:19:40 - Chess Students
Good student who works hard
Talented student who doesn’t work hard 
It’s not a magic trick, its a formula 
Different student, different teaching 

1:38:35 - Life
Birthday 
Don’t beef with your homies Girlfriend
The Perks of not having a girlfriend 
I wanna date a fighter 
Songs of 28-29

• Space Song by Beachhouse 
• House of the Rising sun 
• Dark Necessities by Red Hot C hilli peppers/Someday by Flipsyde/Good News by Mac Miller
• High Hopes Panic at the Disco
• Johnny Wants to fight by Badflower

I miss stand up comedy
I dream of stand up/chess

It's crazy how one game, one decision, one day, or one person can change the trajectory of your life from here, to all the way over somewhere else. I recap Chicago Open, Chess Training, East Atlanta Championship 4 plans, students, and how I saw the butterfly effect in my life. Chicago Open was some serious fighting chess. Surviving battles, and even turning them around. That's how I live life, cause I'm a fighter. 

0:10 - Intro
Chicago Open 
5.5/9
Beat a GM/Lost to a GM
Drew 3 IMs
FIGHTING Chess/Here we go again 
Staying focused during tournaments
Never getting in time pressure 
Thinking you’re too good vs. thinking you’re not good
Older people complaining about chess 
Older people complaining about CCA
Doing the pairings
Putting in the games/Analyzing Games/Sensei analysis 
Kids don't play bug house
Post tournament vacation 
Movies 
Tuesday tournaments

35:10 - East Atlanta Championship 4
Doing things early/Marketing  
Importance of 1st entry fee deadline 
Sponsorship 
Incentivizing more people 

43:55 - Chess Training
Chicago was a good litmus test 
More training, more training partners, more focus on chess
More databases 
More Books 
More weekends of chess 
More opponent preparation 
Training Camp 
-Eating 
-Working out 
-Socializing
-Birthday 
-Youtube videos

56:28 Chess Students
Big summer
July plan 
Working on defense, but not forgetting offense 
Opening flowsheets/middle game tests/quizzes

1:01:05 - The Butterfly effect

Whats up guys? In this episode I break down the East Atlanta Chess Championship 3, it was a great tournament and we've added a lot of features since the last tournament. On top of that I break down my chess training, students chess training, and the beauty of Miami Heat Basketball right now. Shout out to our sponsors Ciprian Bodea, James Altucher, Argosy, Elder Tree, Park Pet Supply, EACA, and EABA.

Intro
0:10 - East Atlanta Championship 3
Dana White/Warms my heart moments
Performance Bonuses 
41 Players
Championship - 1st - Jonathan Hrach
U1800 - 1st - Hank Deslaurier 
U1400 - 1st - Ciprian Bodea/Don Tonic 
Performance bonuses
-James Altucher 
-Chris Chambers 
-Kevin Rojas
-Jack Ramsey 
-Cole Fiegel
Story Lines 
For the Chess players/10,000 hours/Perfect Combination + Timing 
Improvements

• New section
• Lunch Sponsor
• After Party sponsor 
• Clocks 
• 2nd Date locked in 
• Performance bonuses 
• Sponsors 
• Branan 
• Snacks/Tip jar 
• Free entries 

Future Improvements

• Setting up 
• Announcements
• Being early(Lunch/After party/Marketing)
• USCF IDs 
• Website/Accounting 
• Wednesdays
• Bathroom
• Trophies 
• 2 day tournaments
• Out of state 
• Competition 

42:55 Chess Training
Deliberate Practice vs. Flow state playing 
Russian Primer 
7 Habits of Highly Effective People(shout out Audible)
Studying with an end goal in mind 
Openings 
Training 
Player archetypes 
Pairings 
Locking myself in the room 
Getting to the game on time 
Not getting up 
Working Out 
Eating 

1:02:45 -  Chess Students

• Dagestani Wrestlers 
• Endgames 
• Commitment vs. lack of commitment 
• Not just chess players, fighters 
• Boxing 

Miami Heat
Pack of Wolves
Coaching
Jimmy Butler 

Episode 36 - Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
0:10 - Outliers 
Part One: The Mathew effect
-Hockey players cut off was January 
-40% born January-Feb
-30% March-April
-What started as a small advantage became more, and more 
-Eventually it became a significant advantage(Czech national soccer team)
-The kids with advantage were picked, coached, and encouraged

Part 2
-achievement is talent + preparation
-10,000 hours best, 8000 good, 4000 okay 
-If you’re good enough to be at the top, the differentiating factor is work 
-10 years to be GM… Of HARD practice 
-Being poor is hard because it takes away from your time 
-Time sharing revolutionized computer science because people can save time helping each other 
-The Beatles played sooo much, 8 hours of playing in a day 
-Bill Gates started coding in 8th grade, had the funding to make it happen, got a company that needed payroll, Bill Gates got extra time to practice. When he dropped out sophomore year he had already been coding for 7 years. 
-20% of the richest people born in a 9 year span in America 

Part 3
-Ravens test, 48 questions that progressively get harder 
-IQ is more of a cutoff 

Part 4
-richer kids have more entitlement which isn’t necessary bad. They are more willing to ask, and prioritize what they want 
-Poorer kids had distrust, and didn’t know how to ask for things. 
-Family background is very important. 

Part 5
-rags to riches are not random 
-If you work hard enough, use your mind/imagination, you can shape your future. 

Part 6
-Legacy 
-Herdsmen have a culture of honor. 
-They must stand up for their beliefs, otherwise people will take. 
-Back in the day the south had the most murders, by people who knew each other. It was about honor 

Part 7 
-ethnic theory 
-Plane crashes take about 7 errors
-One thing complies another, like chess 
-More crashes when main pilot flies, other person won’t speak up. 
-Need to speak up!! 
-American low power distance, we see each other as equals. 

Part 8 
-Asian people are better at math cause the English language is more complicated for numbers 
-Rice farming is a good balance, not too easy, rewarding, incentived 
-All Asian cultures, rice patty fields, where hard work is rewarded. 

Part 9
-Summer vacation could be bad 
-During summer poor kids lose progress, rich kids gain 

Interview 
-being a minority is a advantage for comedians 

31:32 Lessons from the week

When you need to hear something, is that when someone tells you?/The car phenomenon  
Theme of the day 
People buying houses
Giving Up the past
Formula for attack/Openings 
Girls with family 
Endgames
Giving up things
         Happiness is giving up what you want now, for what you want eventually Breaking Cycles
Playing Blitz with no distraction 
Using different language 
I work hard 
How you describe yourself is who you are 
Mr. Last Minute/Time
Being Punctual 
The Gambit Method
Tournament storylines 
Let go of the past 
First Correction may be an over correction 
The Dark Mirror 
-Gandalf vs. Soromon 
-Jon Snow vs. Ramsey Bolton 
-Zuko vs. Aang 
Oranges in the fridge/Molly

Whats up guys? In this episode I break down the East Atlanta Chess Championship 2. It was a great tournament, a lot of things to work on, but definitely a lot of growth and success from the last one. After that I break down what's happening in the other major areas of my life. I recently finished reading the book Grit:The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth. I 1000% recommend it! 

Episode 35 - East Atlanta Chess Championship 2

0:00 - Intro
0:10 - East Atlanta Chess Championship 2
42 Players, full sponsors
POTN, Charley Chen, Andrew Jiang 
GOTN Jonathan Hrach vs. Alonso Zapata
Using the UFC Model
Future Improvements
Studying during tournaments 
Bonuses
U1800 section
Out of state
Blitz Tournament
Improvements from past tournament
Sponsors
Trifolds 
Next date confirmed
Local business sponsors 
More people, more results
Snacks
First Grandmaster
Cool moments
Announcements
Clean Up
First GM victory 
Epic Last Round 
31:15 - Chess 
-Rounding Out Openings
 -Chess History 
 -Studying World Champions 
 -Getting Excited for my next tournament/Hunting Lions 
 -Forget everything else, I just want to train
 -Literally just the best training partners ever 
 -Training for openings
 -Training for Attack vs. Defense
 -Training for endings
 -Training for time pressure
 -Training for pace
 -Training for creativity 
 -Tournament season is slightly approaching 
-Material, Time, Quality of Pieces 


50:30 - Business 
Experimentation early on vs. Building a base
Accommodating the venue
Too much time on little things
Giving back to the community 
Adding value/Marketing 
First big test 

59:35 - Students
3 days a week is too much… you gotta be kidding me 
My goal is to make Grandmasters
My time is valuable/Raising standards
Getting hit with the puppy eyes 
Preparing Material,Training Matches/Books/Training Partner
Preparing Openings
Mistake Archetypes
Time pressure
Playing too fast 
Doing nothing 
Making silly mistakes 
Talent but lazy 

1:15:43 - Stand Up
I miss you =(

Martial Arts
Power Lifting
Getting too big 
How big muscles effect fighters 
When you work out too much, everyday life is a workout
Power lifting mentality is GOLD  
1:28:44 - Life 
Post Tournament
Sponsorship benefits
The energy you give out 
Telling the truth 
Grit/Audio Books/Reading/Top 5 
Learning so much from older men/Being Kind/Surrounding yourself with good people
NBA Playoffs
Miami Heat =D
ATL Hawks =(
If no one hits me up, no problem!

Whats up guys!? In this episode I talk about finishing reading the bible after 3 years! I also break down all the awesome things happening in chess training, running the chess business, what I've been seeing with my chess students, and round out the pod with what I've learned in Stand up comedy and martial arts. If you have any suggestions or questions, or want some advice message me on Instagram at Daaron.3, I will respond!


Intro:0:00

Life - 0:10
-Finished reading the bible, 3 years, 711 journal entries, 300 pages of google docs 
-Christians getting a bad reputation/thinking they’re better than other people 
-Big Takeaways
-Be kind to everyone, and forgive everyone good and evil are just one decision or one bad day away 
-Don’t take things personally or emotionally, analyze what happened and learn 
-Raising your standards solves problems 
-Attack your weaknesses 
-Let your actions be proof 
-Long term is more important, push through adversity/pain 
-You can’t do this alone, surround yourself with people have the same mindset 
-Knowledge is power, read more 

Chess - 22:39
-Chess training is the best!! 
-Finding a good training partner 
-Opening exploration 
-Far out vs. Close to competition 

Business - 33:10
First Good Wednesday 
Sponsors filling out 
Adding value to sponsors 
Preparing for tournament 2 
Plans for Tournament 3 
-Date before tournament
Chicken + Chess 
Checkmate Mondays 

Students - 45:20
-Tough Love getting results 
-Tough love cutting students 
-Attacking Weaknesses/Being more specific 
-Teaching Endgames
-No lessons before 12 
-Students need to earn decisions
-Let students make decisions 

1:00:24 - Stand Up + Martial Arts
-Assembling sets 
-Writing Everyday 
Martial Arts
-Teaching boxing combinations 
-MMAShredded
-Dynamic Striking/Trevor Whittman 
-Hella cardio 

Episode 33 - Adesanya

Whats up guys! in this Episode my good friend Olu Adesanya joins the podcast to break down the absolute epic fight Adesanya vs. Periera 2. We also break down the card and what we thought about the fights that weekend, upcoming fights, and what's going on in our lives! 

Show notes 
Intro
Start talking about UFC 
Stop talking about UFC 
The End 

Master of None is a podcast ran by Deepak Aaron(Daaron.3). Chess, Stand Up Comedy, Boxing, Jiu Jitsu, Sports(UFC/NFL/NBA), business and analogies to life. I'm on the path to Grandmaster at chess(I have 3 International Master norms/GA State Champions, 2400+ USCF, and have competed Internationally), and every week I also do open mics, box and do jiu jitsu(still a beginner but making progress) and run WolfChess an Atlanta based chess company. I primarily watch UFC/NBA/NFL and love to analyze and talk about it! Every week I will be doing a podcast episode to summarize what I've done/what I've learned/and what I've observed through these endeavors that week. 

Episode 32 - GA State Champion, Adesanya World Champion

0:10 - Chess 

• GA State Championship
• The worst day ever before the tournament
• Preparation for the tournament(Mental+Physical+Reading)
• 10 game undefeated streak since last loss 
• Player Archetypes
  • Rd1 Older Gentlemen that's cautious 
  • Rd2 Solid player who wants to trade queens
  • Rd3 Talented kid who plays classical chess 
  • Rd4 Older Gentlemen who plays hyper aggressive
  • Rd5 Talented kid who wants a draw
• Opponent psychology/How to beat kids in chess 
• Good jiu jitsu and good striking 
• Giving God credit for the accomplishments
• 1 Day vacation week
• Making GM by the end of the summer 
  • Training partners 
  • 10 tournaments 
  • Books 
  • Body, Mind, and Spirit 
• Training camp, next tournament is end of May 
• Streaming begins! 

28:27 - Business

• Learning to let people help/Different people excel in different roles 
• Chess tables/Donating trophy/$500 sponsor 
• Sponsorship dinner
• Riding momentum
• Chess strategy and business strategy 
• Scheduling emails/Instagram posts/Creating a schedule 
• Every small business must build client lists 

43:44 - Students

• 8 students gained rating, 5 lost rating 
• Puzzle Punishment 
• Making cuts, and following up 
• Knowing when to push/Knowing when to encourage
• Chess boxing students

52:00 - Stand Up

• Bit factory
• Changing the organization 
• Adapting the schedule
• Paying to go earlier
• Using writing/Practicing as an excuse 

58:12 - Jiu Jitsu/Boxing 

• Adesanya vs. Pereira 3 + best fights on card
• Roy Jones vs. Pettis
• Duran vs. Hagler 
• Teaching boxing 
• Mental strength makes your body stronger 
• Running/Working out 5 days a week 
• Getting back in the gym/pushing it off 

1:17:53 - Life

• How Chess effects stand up/business/Martial arts
• Almost finished reading the bible 
• Approaching final form
• Why girls walk fast and guys walk slow 
• Imagine going to war back in the day 
• Imagine giving birth back in the day 
• Why do people live in cold places?
• Pressure on older women
• Approaching dating differently after dating multiple people 
• Assessing potential partners vs. Arranged marriage 
• Arranged marriage philosophies 
• If you want to get better, be curiosity driven

Master of None is a podcast ran by Deepak Aaron(Daaron.3). Chess, Stand Up Comedy, Boxing, Jiu Jitsu, Sports(UFC/NFL/NBA), business and analogies to life. I'm on the path to Grandmaster at chess(I have 3 International Master norms/GA State Champions, 2400+ USCF, and have competed Internationally), and every week I also do open mics, box and do jiu jitsu(still a beginner but making progress) and run WolfChess an Atlanta based chess company. I primarily watch UFC/NBA/NFL and love to analyze and talk about it! Every week I will be doing a podcast episode to summarize what I've done/what I've learned/and what I've observed through these endeavors that week. 

Episode 32 - Write Stuff Down! 

0:10 - Chess

• Florida Tournament/Florida as a state
• Being too fixated on certain ideas
• Holes in calculations/ Move based analysis vs. Position based analysis
• Playing openings unprofessionally 
• Mental battles during games 
• Writing down mistakes post analysis 
• Negi Chess books
• Post Tournament vacation 
• Choosing Openings/Archetypes 
• Playing friends
• Traveling with friends
• Organizing Tournaments
• Controlling what you can control/not worry about the rest

25:05 - Students

• Students CRUSHED IT 
• One dude on 12 game win streak gained 500 points 
• Gain 200 points in two tournaments
• Older Student won first place after a year of tough tournaments
• Pushing Pawns 
• Planning ahead, then no problem 
• If you practicing, you gotta be playing 
• Raising standards/kids will always test boundaries 
• Students keeping me accountable

42:40 - Stand Up

• Writing improvement 
• Still, take out the nonsensical stuff
• What you saying needs to make sense 
• Picking up stuff from your peers 
  • Post punch line 
  • Stance while talking 
  • Not worrying about your spot 
• Seeing peers getting better 
• Don’t go #22 
• Get there early, and leave early 
• 3 hours of comedy can be terrible… 

57:30 - Jiu Jitsu/Boxing 

• Kamaru Usman RIP
• Justin Gaetje, inside fighting/uppercuts, Trevor Whitman coaching
• Chito Vera
• In a streetfight would you want to go to the ground or stay on the feet? 
• The more you can fight the more you don’t want to
• Training when it’s not novel/The curse of knowing what you have to do

1:09:00 - Life

• Parents doing too much = kids being careless 
• People asking way too many questions 
• Phones are the worst 
• Tournament logistics 
• Cleaning 
• Getting back in shape 
• Spotify radio
  • Blue Stones
  • Johnny Wants to fight 
  • Friday Pilots Club 
• Levels to every art, tattooing takes about 5 years, Stand up 10, chess 10,000 hours

Master of None is a podcast ran by Deepak Aaron(Daaron.3). Chess, Stand Up Comedy, Boxing, Jiu Jitsu, Sports(UFC/NFL/NBA), business and analogies to life. I'm on the path to Grandmaster at chess(I have 3 International Master norms/GA State Champions, 2400+ USCF, and have competed Internationally), and every week I also do open mics, box and do jiu jitsu(still a beginner but making progress) and run WolfChess an Atlanta based chess company. I primarily watch UFC/NBA/NFL and love to analyze and talk about it! Every week I will be doing a podcast episode to summarize what I've done/what I've learned/and what I've observed through these endeavors that week. 

0:10 - Chess
East Atlanta Chess Championship/Creating a community 
Tournament Preparation
Wolf Pack Preparation + Lone Wolf Execution/Can’t keep sacrificing for others
Opening/Opponent Spreadsheets 
Trophies

24:14 - Students
My students hang out with each other 
Opening Spreadsheets/Color coordinating/Writing stuff down
Declining Draw against 800 points higher 

33:30 - Stand Up
Right before I go up, I want to go home
Slowing it down/Rewatching 
Writing/Rewriting
Practicing 
Tik Tok/Youtube/Instagram
Never Post 2 in the same day 
Early isn’t early enough 

45:35 - Jiu Jitsu/boxing
MMA Shredded
Hook-backfist-cross
Jab high-jab low-cross
Jab-Hook-Cross
Gazelle hook-uppercut-hook
Jab-cross-jab(light)-jab-jab-cross or Body cross hook
Rear Upper Cut-Liver Hook(Canelo combo)
Full Mount control their hand
Full Mount hands/legs in their armpits
Running/Lifting weight
Jon Jones Recap
Yan/Volkov/Krylov/Nurmagomedov

1:05:57 - Life
Students Parents/Psychology 
People be asking way too many questions 
The older I get the more I understand squidward 
Being an adult/More grown up 
Why would anyone live in cold places?

Master of None is a podcast ran by Deepak Aaron(Daaron.3). Chess, Stand Up Comedy, Boxing, Jiu Jitsu, Sports(UFC/NFL/NBA), business and analogies to life. I'm on the path to Grandmaster at chess(I have 3 International Master norms/GA State Champions, 2400+ USCF, and have competed Internationally), and every week I also do open mics, box and do jiu jitsu(still a beginner but making progress) and run WolfChess an Atlanta based chess company. I primarily watch UFC/NBA/NFL and love to analyze and talk about it! Every week I will be doing a podcast episode to summarize what I've done/what I've learned/and what I've observed through these endeavors that week.