Russians shake hands and go to the polls, Fabulous Fabiano, Growing Giri, and what's in a name?



(Below: Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri, Mitt Romney. Credit: Macauley Peterson, Gage Skidmore [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons)




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018 - We Play Both Sides

A chess podcast with a couple of cheeky chaps! Macauley Peterson hosts International Master Lawrence Trent and Grandmaster Simon Williams to breakdown the chess world into lively short bites.

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Episode 54 - May Musings
The FEB gang share a bottle of wine and check in on the World Championship, Magnus Carlsen, online blitz grudge matches with Americans and what's (not) rotten in the state of Denmark. Dormant but not dead, subscribe to the podcast to get our irreverent if irregular inquiries into the state of chess and the chess world!
 
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054 - May Musings

Episode 53 - FIDE-fi-fo-fum
We go for gold with a preview of the Chess Olympiad in Batumi and the FIDE Presidential elections. Plus unplanned banter about Bitcoin and Twitch streams. Are players too lazy for politics? And 'Oh Capablanca' is music to our tears.
 
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Episode 52 - The Full English Break...
WTF, where have we been? Caruana and the Candidates, Agon limited success, and FIDE politics, plus hypnosis, bitcoin and a whatever else comes out with the help of a bottle of wine.
 
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052 - The Full English Break

Episode 51 - World Couple
We discuss the format of the World Cup, elite ratings, and Candidates qualification heading into Isle of Man.

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051 - World Couple

Episode 50 - Raw British
Simon and Lawrence dish on their British Championship experiences in Llandudno, Wales.

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018 - We Play Both Sides

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