EP.217 - "IM to GM" Adult Improver Special with IMs Lawrence Trent, Sean Nagle and Attila Turzo

Perpetual Chess Podcast

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4.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 131 minutes

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This week’s podcast is a special feature that includes three different IM guests who are working to attain the Grandmaster title! My guests are popular commentator, IM Lawrence Trent, 9-time Minnesota State Champion IM Sean Nagle, and Hungary-based chess trainer, IM Attila Turzo. These guests have very different backgrounds, chess distances to travel and life situations, but they all share the common goal of wanting to earn the highest title in chess. Why is it important to them? What do they need to improve in order to climb this final steep step? What will their study routines entail? I know that many of you will also be pursuing new chess milestones and goals post-pandemic, so I hope that you find some good advice and inspiration in these 3 interviews! Please read on for more details and timestamps for each interview. For complete show notes and links, please go to the webpage: Episode 217- "IM to GM" special episode with IMs Lawrence Trent, Sean Nagle, and Attila Turzo 0:00- Intro Mentioned: IM Kostya Kavutskiy, IM Eric Rosen, IM Kassa Korley, IM John Bartholomew, IM Greg Shahade, IM Abimanyu Mishru, IM Christopher Yoo, IM Carissa Yip 5:00- Perpetual Chess is brought to you in part by HotSaucery.co You should try some of their delicious hot sauces. Use the promo code PERPETUAL to save 10%. You can Follow them on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/hot.saucery/ 6:00- IM Lawrence Trent joins the show! Lawrence is a frequent and popular chess commentator, streamer and content creator. He has served as the manager for his friend GM Fabiano Caruana, and was one of the co-hosts of the original chess podcast, The Full English Breakfast, with Macauley Peterson, GM Stephen Gordon, and GM Simon Williams. He joins us to share his reasons for deciding that now is the time for him to pursue his last GM norm and the 100 FIDE points that he requires to earn the GM title. Thanks to Lawrence for joining the show. 45:50- IM Sean Nagle joins the show. Sean is a Minnesota based Corporate and Securities Attorney, 9-time Minnesota State Chess Champion,husband, and dad of 3 kids. 1:30:30- IM Attila Turzo joins the show. Here is how you can contact him and track his quest: Twitch- https://www.twitch.tv/attilaturzo Twitter- https://twitter.com/AttilaTurzo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCezDjmS_25xjLYi8_jLAWeA First Saturday Tournament- http://www.firstsaturday.hu/2012/index.htm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.1	Hello everyone. I am Ben Johnson and this is the perpetual chess podcast. Perpetual chess is a weekly
0:39.9	chess interview show where we talk with accomplished chess players, authors, and personalities
0:44.1	about their lives, their careers and how to improve at chess. Perpetual chess is brought to you
0:49.2	through the generosity of its Patreon and PayPal supporters and by chesible.com.
0:57.8	Hey everyone, we've got a special episode for you this week as we have three guests for the
1:03.7	price of one. With the end of COVID lockdown possibly, maybe I hope in sight, I've been seeing a lot of chess players talking about
1:12.8	their chess goals on social media. I love to see people set lofty but achievable goals and
1:19.6	put in the hours to try to make it happen. With that in mind, this episode features three guests
1:24.7	will be pursuing the highest title of them all Grandmaster.
1:28.8	The Grandmaster title, of course, is the highest title, and it's attained by achieving
1:33.8	a peak Fide rating over 2,500, and you have to earn three what are called norms.
1:39.8	For more information about how these titles are done, one, you can look it up, but of course
1:45.3	it's safe to say that it's very difficult.
1:47.8	Grandmaster Jesse Cry said earning the Grandmaster title was the most difficult professional
1:53.4	thing he had ever done in his life.
1:56.4	So my guests for this show are I am Lawrence Trent, I am Sean Nagel, and I am Attila Terzo,
2:03.0	interviewed in that order. They have different ages and different professional and family
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