Bonus Pod- Three Amateurs on Chess Lessons Learned and Adventures Had at the National Open in Las Vegas

Perpetual Chess Podcast

Perpetual Chess LLC

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🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

We are trying a new format here on Perpetual Chess and are featuring tournament trip reports from 3 different amateurs who recently competed in the National Open in Las Vegas, Nevada. I have long wanted to know more about what it is like to attend and compete in this venerable chess festival, and I lined up 3 guests to share their reflections on the tournament and the chess lessons that they learned. My 3 guests are: 1) NM Todd Bryant (aka StrongChess) joins the podcast to discuss his experience in the Under 2300 section. Todd is a Software Engineer for Chess.com, a chess dad, and a blitz and weight lifting enthusiast. 2) Lindsey Newhall joins to report on the Under 1300 section, the Women’s Open tournament, and a family reunion of sorts. Lindsey is a California-based chess player, chess teacher and tournament director. 3) Returning guest, Twitch streamer and chess teacher Cody Smith reports on the Under 1900 Section, and some Twitch streamer meetups. I hope you all enjoy this format, please let me know if you enjoy it and if it is something you would like to hear more of for big tournaments. Timestamps for guest appearances and info is below: 0:01- Intro to the pod Subscribe to my free newsletter here: https://benjohnson.substack.com/ Thanks to Chessable for the support, check out their latest courses: https://www.chessable.com/courses/all/new/ 0:03- NM Todd Bryant “StrongChess” joins. 23:00- Lindsey Newhall joins the podcast. Lindsey was featured in Episode 58 of Chess Journeys 46:00- CL Smith rejoins the pod! CL Smith was in Episode 270 of Perpetual Chess Follow Cody on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/clsmithxv If you would like to help support Perpetual Chess via Patreon, you can do so here: https://www.patreon.com/perpetualchess Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.7	Hello everyone and welcome back to perpetual chess.
0:37.4	Listeners, we've got a bonus pod for you.
0:39.4	It's been a while since we've done one, but there's a format that I've been wanting to try out on the podcast, and I thought that the timing was right.
0:46.6	What we're going to do for this podcast is we're going to hear the perspective on a single tournament from three different people who played in the tournament in different sections with different backgrounds. The tournament in question was part of the Las Vegas
0:58.2	International Chess Festival and it is the National Open, which recently concluded in, wait
1:02.8	for it, Las Vegas. Listeners who heard my interview with Graham Master Band Feingold may have heard
1:07.6	that Ben was going to be there sort of as one of the hosting personalities,
1:11.6	along with I am Eric Rosen.
1:14.1	And this is a tournament I've been curious about for a while because I've heard really good
1:18.1	things about sort of the community there.
1:19.9	And I love that they have so many different activities.
1:22.4	They have a women's tournament for women to compete in on their own leading up to the main
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