EP 276- GM Michael Adams- Stories and Lessons from Mickey's decades Among the Chess Elite

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4.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 102 minutes

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GM Michael “Mickey” Adams is a legend of British chess who has been an elite chess player for the last 30 years. He is a former World Champion finalist, the 7 time champion of Great Britain and has been ranked as highly as #4 in the world. Michael is also an author, most recently of the very original and instructive new book, Think Like a Super GM, with co-author Philip Hurtado. Michael is normally one of the most active players on the tournament circuit, and as Covid subsides he is preparing to resume a busy schedule, beginning with the Tepe Siegman invitational in May. In our fascinating and entertaining conversation, Mickey shares some memorable stories, and discusses whether he has made adjustments to his game as he turns 50. We also discuss Michael’s new book in detail and shared some of its chess improvement takeaways. Please read on for lots more details, timestamps, and links to topics that were referenced. Brief timestamps are below, for full show notes please go to the podcast website EP 276- GM Michael Adams- Stories and Lessons from Mickey's decades Among the Chess Elite — The Perpetual Chess Podcast You can read my reviews of Think Like a Super GM on my Lichess blog or Chess.com blog. 0:00- Mickey has a tournament coming soon, how does he prepare especially after the pandemic? 10:00- How has Mickey maintained his chess strength up to age 50? 18:00- What is Mickey’s approach to using engines? 21:00- Perpetual Chess is brought to you in part by Aimchess.com. Aimchess collects and analyzes your games and gives you actionable tips based on that data. If you choose to subscribe to Aimchess, please use the code Perpetual30 to save 30%. 22:00- Patreon mailbag question: Who is the most naturally talented player that Mickey has ever played against? 27:00- What was it like to play chess with legends like Spassky and Tal? 30:00- Patreon mailbag question: What is Mickey’s favorite victory over a fellow Super GM? 33:00- Mickey tells a few entertaining stories from his younger years involving Kasparov . Kramnik and GM Joel Lautier. 43:00- Perpetual Chess is brought to you in part by Chessable.com. Check out their latest offerings here: New Chess Courses Best of British Chessable Course with GM Simon Williams 44:00- Chess improvement takeaways from Mickey’s new book 57:00- Patreon mailbag question: Will Mickey ever write a games collections book? 1:02:00- Patreon mailbag question: What self-study methods did Mickey use, and which does he recommend? Mentioned: GM Mark Hebden, GM Keith Arkell 1:07:00- Patreon mailbag question: What is Mickey’s advice for how to approach big open Swiss tournaments? 1:11:00- Patreon mailbag question: Who does Mickey think will win the Candidates tournament? 1:20:00- Patreon mailbag question: What does Mickey think of the possibility that Magnus won’t play the next World Championship match? He also shares some ideas of alternative World Championship formats. 1:30:00- Is it true that Mickey has never had a “real job? 1:34:00- Does Mickey still have a condo in Florida? 1:36:00- What is Mickey’s favorite chess venu 1:39:00- Thanks so much to Mickey for joining the pod! Here are the best ways to keep up with him. Mickey's Website Think Like a Super GM (free excerpt here) (Forward Chess version) Best of British Chessable Course with GM Simon Williams If you would like to help support Perpetual Chess, you can do so here: Ben Johnson is creating Perpetual Chess Podcast | Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.7	Hello everyone. I am Ben Johnson and this is the Perpetual Chess Podcast. Perpetual Chess is a weekly
0:39.2	interview show where top chess players, authors, content creators, and accomplished amateurs discuss
0:44.7	their careers and share stories and chess improvement tips. Perpetual Chess is a part of the
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1:00.1	but without further ado, let's get to the show.
1:05.8	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to perpetual chess. I am pleased to share that we are
1:09.6	joined by a legend of British chess this week.
1:11.8	He's been an elite chess player for the last 30 or so years. He's a former world championship finalist,
1:17.3	the seven-time champion of Great Britain, who's been ranked as highly as number four in the world with a peak elo of 2761.
1:24.4	He is also an author, the co-author of the very original instructive new book, Think
1:29.2	Like a Super Grandmaster, along with Philip Hurtado. He's won too many tournaments to name,
1:34.4	so we will leave the introduction to that and welcome him to the show. Welcome Grandmaster Mickey
1:39.7	Adams. Hi, Ben. Nice to be here. Thanks. I'm so excited to speak with you, Mickey. I'm a long-time fan of your chess and your
1:47.2	comportment, so it's a big honor, and I've got lots of questions to dig into.
1:52.5	Great. Thank you for having me.
1:54.4	Sure. So I thought we would talk about your chess, for starters, Mickey, believe it or not.
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