EP.05 - Grandmaster Simon Williams

Perpetual Chess Podcast

Perpetual Chess LLC

Sports, Leisure, Hobbies

4.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Simon Williams (aka the Ginger GM) is an entertaining and original chess player, educator and personality. In this fun interview we discuss his background, the chess culture in England, and detail his transition from primarily playing chess to teaching chess online. We also talk about his travels, both to international chess tournaments and to local British pubs. To find more about him go to gingergm.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, I'm Ben Johnson, and this is the perpetual chess podcast.
0:09.5	On perpetual chess, I have weekly conversations with the chess world's best players,
0:13.8	promoters, and educators about their lives, careers, current projects, and best practices.
0:18.8	For more information, go to perpetual chesspod.com.
0:27.4	So I'm here with Grandmaster Simon Williams, the People's Champion, the Ginger GM,
0:33.7	with 11,000 YouTube subscribers and a peak rating of over 2,500.
0:39.0	So Simon, thanks for coming on.
0:40.8	It's a pleasure, Ben.
0:41.8	Good to be here.
0:42.7	So Simon and I go back a little bit.
0:44.5	I met him in 2006 at the Rakevik Open.
0:49.0	I think tournaments like that are a little more common for Simon than for a fish like
0:53.7	me.
0:53.9	But first off, I just
0:55.4	want to testify that Simon, I feel like he does a better job of projecting his personality
1:00.7	online than a lot of chess players, and I'm here to vouch for his personality. He is what he
1:06.7	appears to be. Nice guy, friendly guy. We shared a pint or two together and had a good time. And
1:13.9	Simon at least even played some good chess. Well, occasionally had my moments, Ben. I mean,
1:20.8	it was a really fun tournament. I mean, you mentioned a pint or two, but I'm sure it was a bottle
1:26.6	vodka at some point as well, wasn't it?
1:28.5	Yes, that's true.
1:29.7	Yeah, and Brenovan, the Icelandic favorite.
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