EP 378- Lou Hays- Spending weekends with Fischer and Spassky, Getting to 2100 from Scratch as an Adult, Chess Publishing Then and Now

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🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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For this week’s (non-Candidates) podcast I am honored to be joined by Lou Hays. Lou Hays is a businessman, accomplished chess author, and the founder of Hays Publishing, which published many popular books beginning in the 1990s. Lou also is an accomplished amateur player, who began tournament chess in his 20s and made it up to near master level. Lou has had the opportunity to meet some of the true legends of the game, and shares some amazing stories about his time spent with Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky and David Bronstein. We also discuss how chess improvement has, and has not changed over the decades, as well as Hays Publishing’s most successful books, and how the chess publishing industry has changed. I greatly enjoyed hearing Lou’s stories, and I am confident that you will as well. 0:00- Thanks to our sponsor, Chessable.com. New courses include GM Romain Eduoard’s Lifetime Repertoires: King’s Indian Attack. If you use the link below to sign up for a Chessable pro membership, it helps to support the pod! https://www.chessable.com/pro/?utm_source=affiliate&utm_medium=benjohnson&utm_campaign=pro Mentioned: Winning Chess for Juniors https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Chess-Tactics-Juniors-Hays/dp/1880673932 0:03- In 1992, Lou got to spend the weekend with Bobby Fischer. How did that come about, and what was the experience like? Mentioned: Bobby Fischer, Complete Games of the World Champion, Zita Rajcsanyi, Ken Smith (founder of Chess Digest and the Smith-Morra Gambit), Fischer voicemail is on YouTube here: https://youtube.com/shorts/CCa15k61MLY?si=igrs2WYVuyYHbltj 25:00- Lou shares his own chess story, including how chess improvement has, and has not changed Mentioned: Hastings 1895 (Out of print), NM John Jacobs, Hal Bogner, IM Anatoly Lein 37:00- What was it like to spend a weekend with Boris Spassky? 46:00- Lou tells the story of playing legendary blitz player Israel Zelber. 49:00- How did Lou get into the chess publishing business? Mentioned: My System: 21st Century Edition, Winning Chess Tactics for Juniors, Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess, Stuart Margulies, Yasser Seirawan 55:30- Patreon mailbag question: Would Lou consider putting Winning Chess Tactics for Juniors on Chessable? Mentioned: James Stallings 1:00:00- Lou is also an accomplished improver at golf! Are there any parallels to chess improvement? Mentioned:Lou’s book Make Your Golf Dream a Reality , 1:01:00- What was it like to spend time with legendary GM David Bronstein? Mentioned: The Rise and Fall of David Bronstein by Genna Sosonko, Mikanes Bronstein 1965 If you would like to help support Perpetual Chess via Patreon, you can do so here: https://www.patreon.com/perpetualchess Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to perpetual chess. Before we introduce our guest,
0:09.3	who I'm super excited to chat with, wanted to give a shout out to our sponsors, chescible.com. Chesible,
0:14.1	of course, has tons of new courses. Romaine-Edward has a new lifetime repertoire on the King's Indian
0:18.7	attack if you're going to try to put your opponents
0:21.0	to sleep like I do. But you can also sign up for Chessable Pro. One of the features they have
0:27.2	is right now, as I record this, the candidates is ongoing. And of course, this particular episode
0:33.9	is not focused on the candidates. Tune into the bonus pods for that, but if you want to drill, there's been so many
0:39.0	instructive games, and again, as we record, we're only four rounds in, and Grandmaster
0:43.0	Alexenko has a course available for Chessable Pro members, and of course you can do things
0:48.0	like Puzzle Connect as well. If you do decide to sign up for Chessable Pro or purchase a course,
0:53.7	be sure to use the link in the description.
0:56.5	And without further ado, I would like to introduce our guest.
1:00.1	So our guest was the founder of Hayes Publishing, founded in 1991, which among many other books published the 21st edition,
1:08.9	since 21st Century edition of my system and
1:12.4	winning chess tactics for juniors, which I am
1:14.8	holding in my hand. He's also a USCF expert who
1:18.5	started chess in his 20s and made it all the way up to the
1:20.9	2100. So he was an adult improver before it was even a thing.
1:24.8	He also founded several other successful businesses outside of the
1:28.9	chess realm. These days he's semi-retired in Oklahoma, but he was a stalwart of the Dallas chess scene,
1:35.9	organized a lot of events there, did a lot of travel, and got to meet and spend time with
1:40.4	legends like Bobby Fisher, Boris Spaskey, and David Bronstine.
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