EP.26 - International Master John Bartholomew

Perpetual Chess Podcast

Perpetual Chess LLC

Sports, Leisure, Hobbies

4.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2017

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Just 2.5 years after posting his first Youtube video, IM John Bartholomew has become one of the most popular chess YouTubers in the world. John reveals his original motivation for starting his channel and talks about its phenomenal growth to over 38,000 subscribers. He also analyzes the impact his popularity has had on his chess teaching business. We also discuss chessable, the chess training website that he co-founded. Other topics convered include John's influences, his chess playing career, and why he decided to drop out of law school after a semester. Subscribe to John's youtube channel here,follow him on twitter here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:51.6	Hello everyone. I'm Ben Johnson, and this is the Perpetual Chess podcast. On perpetual chess,
0:57.2	I have weekly conversations with the chess world's best players, promoters, and educators about
1:01.8	their lives, careers, current projects, and best practices. For more information, go to
1:06.5	perpetual chesspod.com.
1:14.5	Hey, everyone.
1:16.5	So I am here with International Master,
1:18.7	someone who probably needs no introduction to those of you listening.
1:19.9	But John Bartholomew, John, thanks for coming on the podcast.
1:23.2	My pleasure, Ben.
1:24.0	Thanks for having me.
1:25.1	So I'm a big fan of your YouTube channel. I'm going to try to do an even-handed interview.
1:30.3	But first of all, I just want to say I really respect the way you present yourself to the chess community, and I'm a big fan of your videos.
1:36.9	Oh, well, I definitely appreciate you saying that. Yeah, I strive to make videos in the way that I would want to listen to them or hear them as a viewer.
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