Hello, everyone, and welcome back to a bonus pot of perpetual chess checking in on the Fide World Championship.

It has been a fascinating match so far, and we've got a couple guests who will be joining us.

I will introduce our first in a second.

First, I always wanted to thank our sponsors, Chessbill.com.

If you're listening, you probably know the match is tied three to three. It has been quite entertaining, some unpredictable openings. Both players

showing both some strengths and some weaknesses, as we will be digging into. Following our first

guests, we will do a quick segment with Grandmaster, Yun Ludvork Hammer, who is actually

going to be the regular, long-form, evergreen content-type

guest on next week's pod. But we're going to record a quick hitter to get out today with him

sharing his thoughts on the match so far as he's been doing a great job broadcasting it for

the Take Take Team at the studio in Oslo. But as for our first guest, he is on site in Singapore. He's a friend of the

pod, a return guest, an international master, coach, commentator, author, journalist, translator,

YouTuber, you name it, chessable author. He does all of the chess jobs. And right now he's in

Singapore, as I said, working for Fide.

I've seen him in the press conferences when I tune in.

And I am pleased to welcome back to the program.

I am Michael Rahal.

Welcome, Michael.

Thanks, thanks for the introduction.

And as always, a pleasure to be here.

Yeah, pleasure to chat with you about a fun match. It's a little tricky one to cover because of the time zone difference and the holiday season here in the U.S.

So sorry, I'm getting this out a little bit late, but I've been following it, and I'm excited to talk about the match.

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