EP 371- GM Josh Friedel- Common Beginner & Intermediate Mistakes, Freestyle Chess, and Advice for Goal-Setting

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4.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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GM Josh Friedel is the 2013 US Open Champion and is a state champion of 3 different states! Josh has also been teaching chess for decades, and he always presents chess in a clear and instructive fashion. Here in 2024, Josh has released his first Chessable course, Beginner Mistakes and How to Avoid Them. In addition to sharing some key advice from this course, Josh also discusses common errors he sees at the intermediate level. It has been more than 5 years since my first interview with Josh, so we also catch up on his OTB career, goal-setting, and on what he learns about chess improvement from working to improve at cooking, tennis, and his newest hobby, guitar. 0:00- Thanks to our presenting chess education sponsor, Chessable.com. In addition to GM Friedel’s course, GM Jan Gustafsson is out with a brand new course on 1. E4! If you use the link below to sign up for Perpetual Chess, it helps to support the pod! https://www.chessable.com/pro/?utm_source=affiliate&utm_medium=benjohnson&utm_campaign=pro 0:01- What gave Josh the idea to cover the topic of Beginner Mistakes. What are some common beginner mistakes? 0:11- Josh covers some of the most common intermediate-level (1600-2100) mistakes he sees. Mentioned; GM Josh Friedel’s YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/joshfriedel 0:22- Josh shares his thoughts on Chess960 aka Freestyle Chess 0:27- Patreon mailbag question: What is Josh’s advice for how chess players should go about setting goals? 29- Josh’s plans for an OTB comeback 36:00- Patreon mailbag question: What has Josh learned from working with coaches like GM Kaidanov, GM Goldin, NM Hal Terrie, and GM Larry Christiansen? Mentioned; GM Daniel Naroditsky, Lev Psakhis, Viktor Mikhalevski, Vinay Bhat 45:00- Are Josh’s abilities in his other interests, such as tennis and cooking, also progressing? Mentioned: GM Ray Robson, IM Eric Rosen, IM Marc Esserman 48:00- What is the topic of the chess book Josh is working on? Thanks to Josh for joining the pod! You can reach him via the LiChess coaches page, and be sure to check out his Chessable course! https://www.chessable.com/beginner-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them-the-opening/course/204684/ You can contact him via his LiChess coaches page: https://lichess.org/coach/JFriedel If you would like to help support Perpetual Chess, you can do so here: https://www.patreon.com/perpetualchess Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.4	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to perpetual chess.
0:41.4	Listeners, we are going to catch up with the guest I have not chatted with since June 2018,
0:44.3	and he's actually a favorite guest, so I'm excited to bring him back in.
0:48.3	But first, wanted to give a shout out to our presenting chess education sponsors, chescible.com. Our guest, in fact, after all these years, an accomplished grandmaster has finally written
0:52.7	his first Chescible course.
0:53.7	It's called Beginner Mistakes and How to Avoid Them.
0:56.0	We'll be digging into that course, among other things.
0:58.5	But of course, they also have a wide variety of opening middle game and end game courses that you can check out.
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1:10.6	So as for our guest, he is a state
1:12.8	champion of three different states. I forgot to ask him how many for each state before we recorded,
1:18.0	but a bunch of state championships is all you wouldn't know. Okay. And he's also been a scholastic
1:24.3	national champion. He's a writer and a trainer. And as we said, now a Chesible
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