#327 – GothamChess: Hans Niemann, Magnus Carlsen, Cheating Scandal & Chess Bots

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Lex Fridman

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🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 219 minutes

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Levy Rozman, also known as GothamChess, is a professional chess player, streamer, and educator. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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GothamChess’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/gothamchess
GothamChess’s Website: https://gotham-chess.com

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:14) – Elo rating
(07:18) – Chess.com vs lichess.org
(18:09) – Teaching chess
(22:37) – Magnus Carlsen
(37:52) – Greatest chess player of all time
(42:35) – Hans Niemann cheating scandal
(44:04) – Pin of Shame
(58:12) – Bullying
(1:00:04) – Indonesia incident
(1:11:39) – Retiring from chess
(1:18:16) – Death
(1:21:58) – Streamers
(1:35:34) – Hans Niemann cheating scandal continued
(2:13:16) – Magnus Carlsen’s statement
(2:24:37) – Podcasts
(2:27:04) – Parasocial interaction
(2:30:53) – How to cheat in chess
(2:40:39) – Reddit questions
(2:47:03) – Chess boxing
(2:55:49) – Chess bots
(3:01:31) – AlphaZero
(3:07:18) – Did Hans Niemann cheat?
(3:14:34) – Chess openings
(3:19:14) – Magnus Carlsen’s poker game
(3:21:56) – Chess advice
(3:28:17) – Depression

Transcript

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Levi Rosman, also known as Gotham Chess.
0:04.6	He's a professional chess player and educator.
0:08.5	I highly recommend he check out his YouTube channel called Gotham Chess.
0:15.3	And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor.
0:18.0	Check them out in the description is the best way to support this podcast.
0:21.9	We got Notion for Team Collaboration.
0:24.2	I thought of Greens for daily multivitamins, ExpressVPN for Internet security and Inside
0:30.0	Tracker for Bio Monitoring.
0:32.4	Choose wisely my friends.
0:34.2	And now onto the full ad reads.
0:35.9	As always, no ads in the middle.
0:37.8	I try to make them interesting, but if you must skip, please still check out the sponsors.
0:43.0	I enjoy their stuff maybe you will too.
0:46.8	This show is brought to you by Notion, a note taking in Team Collaboration tool.
0:52.7	I think it's most popularly known for the note taking capabilities.
0:57.8	All the cool kids go to the productivity forums and subreddits and stack exchange.
1:05.2	Notion comes up time and time again as like the stellar, the top tool to use for note
1:09.9	taking.
1:10.9	I use it for note taking on the individual basis.
1:14.2	But the thing that you may not know that Notion is also incredibly good at is the collaboration
1:22.1	aspect of it.
1:23.5	And not just any kind of collaboration, but collaboration for any kind of task.
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