Bonus Pod- FIDE Candidates Round 12 Breakdown (Part 2)- FM Mike Klein on the Player’s Mindsets, Historical Context, and the Alireza Shoe Controversy

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🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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For the final FIDE Candidates bonus pod, award-winning Chess.com journalist, FM Mike Klein joins me from Toronto. We cover topics including the atmosphere in the playing hall, the presence of seconds and family members of the players, what to expect in rounds 13 and 14, and Mike provides his perspective on the controversy surrounding GM Alireza Firouzja's father. Thanks, as always, to Mike for providing so many behind-the-scenes details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.4	Cs apply. Are you guys tired of these bonus pods yet? We're on the last one as this amazing tournament builds toward a climax, and I am joined
0:41.9	by an old friend of mine, former roommate of mine actually, but more importantly, he is an award-winning
0:46.4	chessjournalist for chess.com.
0:48.7	He's also the face of chesskid.com before that, who's quite an accomplished chess trainer.
0:55.4	He's covered a lot of candidates. I've been watching his interviews throughout this one and excited to welcome back to the
0:59.5	pod FM slash fundmaster Mike Klein. Welcome, Mike. Thanks, Benny the Bank. I'm happy to be the
1:06.1	Maraschino Cherry to your candidates coverage. Thank you. Thank you. And one other thing for listeners,
1:10.9	just to add a little more perspective than I have last night. So I am interviewing Irwin
1:14.7	Lemieux when this is over, but that interview is on the 24th. So we'll be a little late with
1:18.7	the retrospective. I'll probably get it out on the 25th or 26th. But we're all going to need to
1:24.3	process whatever madness unfolds here in the next 40 well 72 hours right mike
1:29.7	yeah yeah we could go to the bonus day we could have some chess on monday uh tie breaks are a very
1:35.5	real possibility so uh this is one time where extra work i will not complain about if it ends up going
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