EP.06 - International Master Christof Sielecki

Perpetual Chess Podcast

Perpetual Chess LLC

Sports, Leisure, Hobbies

4.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2017

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

IM Sielecki (Chess Explained on youtube) started competing in chess at the relatively late age of 13 and only recently turned chess teaching into a career. In this interview, Sielecki shares freely about the beginnings of his chess playing life in central Germany and traces the growth of his hugely popular and informative Youtube channel, which is nearing 25,000 subscribers. Christof also discusses his chess philosophy and shares practical ideas of how to improve one's results. Follow him on twitter @chessexplained 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.
0:09.7	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.
0:27.3	So I'm here with International Master Christoph Zillickey.
0:31.1	He's probably best known for his YouTube videos.
0:34.0	He goes by Chess Explained and just puts out an amazing amount of quality content, lives
0:39.6	in Germany, and just great video that inspires me both as a teacher and helps me learn.
0:46.7	So, Christoph, thanks for coming on the show.
0:49.4	Yeah, Ben, I'm happy to be on your podcast.
0:53.0	So I was digging into your background a little bit i've seen
0:55.8	your videos but didn't know that much about you outside of them um you live in do you live in
1:01.8	hamburg or outside of hamburg uh not at all oh really where did you get hamburg oh i don't
1:09.2	know no not not at all i'm i've been to hamburg in my whole life i think two times where did you get Hamburg? I don't know.
1:12.0	No, not at all.
1:15.2	I've been to Hamburg in my whole life, I think, two times.
1:23.0	But I'm currently living in Dean Slarkin, which is a very small town with around 65,000 people here.
1:27.7	It's a small town outside Deuceburg, which maybe somebody could know.
1:30.1	So this is like half a million in population.
1:36.6	It's near the German industrial area, which we call Reinhue area.
1:44.0	Here it's basically the big area in Germany, which had all the steel mills and coal plants and so on. And it's near that, near that area.
1:46.8	It's more like in the, in the middle of Germany, western middle part of Germany. Well, Hamburg
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