You ready?

I was born ready.

Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. I'm David French with Sarah Isger and Sarah.

You know I don't like to brag. You know I hate to brag. But I feel like I'm particularly

ready for this podcast because of a credential I've not really talked about very much.

I was in fact eighth grade champion in chess, Scott County Middle School, Scott County

Kentucky 1982.

So David how many other eighth graders at Scott County Middle School could play chess?

How dare you? How dare you the implication of that question?

I started to clear I couldn't play chess in eighth grade.

So as best I recall it might have been an eight person tournament.

That is significantly larger than I would have expected and I'm wondering if that is remotely

accurate. I don't remember. I remember three rounds. So three rounds would be an eight

person tournament, right? So yeah, three rounds, eight people. I don't know. I'm not.

Some people had just been told the rules of the game ten minutes before the start of

play.

Again, how dare you these I don't know. I don't know how many of them went on to be chess

grandmasters. It could have been zero to seven. Okay. Of the other eight players. But

facts or facts. So I feel very ready to talk about the wildest lawsuit about and we've had

so many listeners who have written to us who have said you've got to cover this chess

world scandal that is culminating in a giant defamation lawsuit. And you know, we heard

your cry and we're going to answer it. We're also going to talk about a couple of circuit

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