EP 410- Chess improvement, Chess Business, and AI coaching with GM Avetik Grigoryan of Chessmood.com

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4.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

GM Avetik Grigoryan is the founder and lead trainer of the education chess website Chessmood.com. I last interviewed Avetik in 2020, and his company has seen explosive growth since then. We discussed what Avetik has learned about growing a chess start-up, but also what he has learned about the challenges adults face in trying to improve at chess. Whereas previously Avetik thought the biggest obstacle was that people set unrealistic goals, now he sees a few bigger issues. We also talked about how artificial intelligence will impact chess improvement in the future and some of the tools Chessmood is working on to make improvement easier. As always, timestamps of topics discussed are below. Thanks to our sponsors, Chessable.com.Their new courses include Chessable- Gukesh’s Masterful Moves.If you sign up for Chessable Pro, please use the following link to help support Perpetual Chess: https://www.chessable.com/pro/?utm_source=affiliate&utm_medium=benjohnson&utm_campaign=pro To sign up for a free month of Chessmood, use the following link: http://Chessmood.com/Ben 2:00- Avetik’s World Championship Thoughts Mentioned: GM Kevin Goh Wei Ming 5:30- Chess Improvement: Why did Avetik write that “Chess improvement has never been so easy, but never been so hard?” Mentioned: NM Robert Ramirez Avetik’s post regarding “Study, Practice, Fix” is here: https://chessmood.com/blog/how-to-get-better-at-chess 24:00- Avetik discusses the AI-enabled chess study tools that Chessmood is launching soon 41:00- What is it like to run a chess startup like Chessmood? 45:00- Avetik’s (non-chess) book recommendations: Mentioned: Beyond Positive Thinking The Third Door A New Earth 51:30- What did Avetik observe about my play from reviewing my games? Mentioned: Chess for Life Thanks to Avetik, for joining me! To sign up for a free month of Chessmood, use the following link: http://Chessmood.com/Ben If you would like to help support Perpetual Chess via Patreon, you can do so here: 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.
0:07.0	We have a return guest that I am excited to catch up with.
0:09.0	I'll introduce him in a minute, but first as always wanted to give a shout out to Chesable.
0:13.0	We are recording this a week before the World Championship starts, but by the time you listen,
0:18.0	the World Championship may be ongoing, or maybe it's already even passed. And if you want to brush up on our potential, some might say highly likely,
0:26.6	soon to be world champion, then check out the new course, Goukesh's masterful moves by Friends
0:31.0	of the Pod, WIM, Natasha Regan, and Matthew Ball. Be sure to check out everything else that Chesa Bull
0:36.4	has to offer.
0:37.8	I also wanted to note that coverage-wise,
0:41.4	of course, basically every Tuesday
0:43.5	we come out with a new pod here on perpetual chess.
0:46.0	The regular Tuesday episodes won't be talking
0:48.1	about the World Championship as it unfolds,
0:50.6	but I likely will do a bonus pod
0:52.9	or two at other points a little more quick hitting discussing the world championship and hopefully talking to a few people in Singapore.
1:01.4	Now, as for this week's guest, he is a return guest who somehow our first interview was way back in September 2020, which I can't believe.
1:08.7	But he is the 2010 champion of Armenia.
1:11.7	He was the coach of the national team of Thailand.
1:14.2	He's coached many title players, including Kevin Goway Meng, who, of course, is a
1:18.3	hero of this podcast for his long journey to the Grandmaster title.
1:23.3	He's like me.
1:24.1	He is a former prok or pro, but of course these days, he's best known as the founder and one of the lead content creators of the educational chess site, Chessmood, which has been growing rapidly and continuing to expand their product offerings, as we will be discussing. But without further ado, let's welcome back to the program, Grandmaster Oftec, Gregorian. Welcome back, Offtick.
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