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Perpetual Chess Podcast

EP 266- NM Jeremy Kane (Adult Improver Series)

Perpetual Chess Podcast

Perpetual Chess LLC

Leisure, Hobbies, Sports

4.8 • 706 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week’s Adult Improver Edition of Perpetual Chess features NM Jeremy Kane:   Blitz specialist, USCF Master, Curriculum Director for Chess.com, and the author of the new book, The Next to Last Mistake.   Jeremy gained nearly 200 points in his 20s, and has a peak USCF rating of 2389.  Because he is the dad of two young kids, Jeremy has recently  turned his attention to online blitz. Jeremy shares some great tips for how to adapt your game to faster online play. Jeremy’s chess.com blitz rating is usually around 2700, so clearly he has some expertise on this subject. Jeremy is also a chess bibliophile, and a former scholastic teacher, so he is full of good chess- improvement advice and recommendations for chess players of all ages and experience levels. As always, relevant links and timestamps can be found below.  0:00- To Keep up with Ben’s blog:  Follow me Chess.com  Follow me on LiChess 03:00- For those rated under 1500 online, what is the best way to spend one’s chess improvement time?  Mentioned: Adult Improver Episode 241 with FM Peter Giannatos, GM David Smerdon’s The Complete Chess Swindler  09:00- How did Jeremy ascend from 2200 to 2390 USCF in his 20s?  Mentioned: Silver Knights Chess Academy  14:00- A few of Jeremy’s favorite game-collection books. Mentioned: My Great Predecessor’s, Seven Deadly Chess Sins, Chess for Zebras, Young Sam Sevian vs. Greg Shahade video, The Road to Chess Improvement  22:00- Perpetual Chess is brought to you in part by Better Help. You can see some online reviews here, and if you sign up, use this link to save 10%: https://www.betterhelp.com/chess 22:45- Perpetual Chess is brought to you in part by Chessable.com. Check out all of their latest offerings here: New Chess Courses Online - For All Levels in all - Chessable.com 23:30- How has Jeremy adapted his game to online play, and blitz in particular?  Mentioned: IM Kostya Kavutskiy’s Video on the Tromp Wall  29:00- For what rating level is blitz a useful training tool? (plus more blitz tips)  Mentioned: GM Daniel Naroditsky Article The Blitz Manifesto  34:30- Aimchess has a brand new feature called Aimchess recap! It summarizes your year in chess a la Spotify wrapped. If you subscribe to Aimchess, be sure to use code Perpetual30 to save 30%.  Check it out here: https://www.aimchess.com/recap 35:30- Patreon mailbag question: “As a dad, has it become difficult to stay motivated for chess?”  38:30- Patreon mailbag question: “What is Jeremy’s advice for a fellow dad who is working on chess while tired?” Mentioned: Gotham Chess YouTube, Kostya Kavutskiy YouTube 43:00- The Chess dot bomb sponsored segment is brought to you by Chess.com! Jeremy and I discuss the Lessons feature which contains interactive instruction for players of all levels. Here are a few of Jeremy’s favorites:  GM Eugene Perelshteyn’s “Every Gambit Refuted” -  GM Fabiano Caruana’s “Road to the World Championship”  GM Shak Mamedyarov’s Games vs. World Champions  IM Kostya Kavutskiy’s - “How to be Materialistic in Chess”  If you decide to upgrade to a premium membership at Chess.com, you can help support the pod by signing up using this link (https://go.chess.com/Perpetual). 46:30- Patreon mailbag question: “Why are the Chess.com Puzzle ratings sometimes so high?” 48:30- Patreon mailbag question: “What are some tips for teaching chess to kids?” Mentioned: https://www.chesskid.com/classroom-planner, Chesskid Curriculm PDF- Chess Steps books  55:30- Patreon mailbag question: “Does Jeremy agree with the advice that one shouldn’t resign?”  Mentioned: Episode 48 with Jonathan Corbblah  59:30- How does Jeremy recommend budgeting study time?  1:00:30- Thanks to Jeremy for joining the show. Here is how you can keep up with him:  Jeremy’s book is called The Next to Last Mistake , edited by Ali Thompson.  You can follow Jeremy on Twitter here You can email Jeremy at Jeremy at chess dot com    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.

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Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.

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Tea break.

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Lunch break.

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Maybe listen to the outbreak.

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Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?

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It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time. Go play some other time put your phone down tombollah open for fun

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1:01.5

Hello, everyone, I am Ben Johnson, and this is the Perpetual Chess podcast.

1:07.8

Perpetual Chess is a weekly chess interview show where we talk with accomplished

1:11.3

players, authors, content creators, and improvers about their lives, their careers, and about

1:17.3

ways that you might be able to improve your own chess game. For more information, go to

1:21.5

perpetual chesspod.com, but without further ado, let's get to the show.

1:28.9

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another adult improver edition of Perpetual Chess.

1:33.4

Before we introduce our guest, I have a few thrilling announcements for you guys.

1:36.7

Okay, maybe they're not that exciting, but I did have a few housekeeping items to catch you all up on.

1:42.6

Number one, I've been blogging a little bit. I don't know how

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