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help and hunger. This week, we're going to talk to Patrick Wolf. He's an American chess grandmaster. And in fact,

in 1988, he beat the world champion Gary Kasparov. Now, granted, it was during a simultaneous

exhibition in which he was playing against five other. But it was one of the shortest losses

by Kasparov in his career in just 25 moves he was bested by Patrick

Wolf. I've long been interested in how expertise is developed and Jess is a perfect case

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