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Welcome to the Quillette podcast, hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan Kay, and by Iona Italia. Quillette is where

Freethought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless

commentary. You are about to hear a free preview of this week's episode. To hear the full episode,

and to get access to all our podcasts and articles,

visit us at quillette.com and click the subscribe button. And on today's episode, I'll be talking

to Danny Rinch, the chief chess officer of chess.com, about his new book, Dark Squares.

Except the interview you're about to hear actually has very little to do with chess. That's because becoming a childhood chess prodigy and co-founding a massively successful chess website weren't even the most interesting parts of Danny's life. As Quillette readers who've seen my review of Dark Moves will know, Danny

Wrench was born into an Arizona-based cult called the Church of Immortal Consciousness,

which was started up by a husband and wife couple named Stephen and Trina Camp. Danny

spent his childhood at the cult compound, known as the collective, in a remote Arizona village called

Tonto. There, Trina would preach to the membership by entering a trans state and channeling

the supposed wisdom of a 14th century English medicine man whom she called Dr. Duran. It was a weird and at times abuse of Milia, and one that

Danny escaped successfully only because of his genius at chess. By the time he was a teenager,

Danny was traveling around Arizona, and then the United States, winning chess tournaments

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