World Championship Bonus Pod #2- FM Mike Klein joins from Dubai to recap 5 tense, deadlocked rounds.

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🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

After 8 rounds, things have changed! As you may have heard, Magnus Carlsen has taken a 5-3 lead in the 2021 World Championship, highlighted by a record breaking, unforgettable win in Game 6. Please listen in as a do a quick rundown of the highlights of the match, then bring in two great guests: Grandmaster Jan Timman is the 9 time champion of the Netherlands, an award winning author, and was one of the highest rated players in the world for over a decade. Jan shares his thoughts on the match so far and discusses the ascendance of young Super GM Alireza Firouzja. John MacArthur is an accomplished scholastic coach and Twitch streamer who joined me just after returning from Dubai on Monday. Dubai was the 6th World Championship match he has attended. John shares some great stories and contrasts this event with the many other memorable matches he has attended. Timestamps and the links you need are below. 9:00- GM Jan Timman joins New in Chess Magazine His latest book, The Unstoppable American: Bobby Fischer's Road to Reykjavik 33:00- NM John MacArthur joins Check out his photos from Dubai on his Instagram here. Follow him on Twitch here. On Twitter here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. I am Ben Johnson, and this is the Perpetual Chess Podcast. Perpetual Chess is a weekly
0:10.1	chess interview show with accomplished chess players, authors, personalities, and adult
0:14.2	improvers where they discuss their lives, their careers, and share tips about how to improve
0:19.0	at chess. For more information, go to perpetual chesspod.com.
0:23.4	So without further ado, let's get to the show.
0:29.4	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another special edition,
0:33.2	World Championship Edition of Perpetual Chess.
0:36.1	First of all, I want to welcome any new listeners.
0:38.3	It looks like a lot of people have been tuning in for the World Championship. So if this is
0:42.8	your first time discovering this podcast, just wanted to give a couple quick notes. We are a weekly
0:48.7	and sometimes more long-form chess interview show generally. We've interviewed world champions
0:53.7	like Veswanath and Anand and Alexandra Kostjanyuk,
0:56.8	content creators like Levi Rosman, aka Gotham chess, and Daniel Neraditsky,
1:01.5	and authors like GM Jakob Agar, Bruce Pandolphini.
1:04.7	If you're more into chess improvement, you can check out our adult improvement series
1:08.6	where accomplished amateurs share study tips. We even do book
1:12.6	reviews once a month or so. We've got one coming soon. But of course, this episode is about
1:17.2	the World Championship, and we are joined by a friend of mine who is joining us from Dubai. He has
1:23.0	been omnipresent in the chess.com coverage. You can often see him flagging people down, especially
1:28.6	on Napomniqi after the games and then asking good questions during the press conferences.
1:34.5	He was the 2012 chess journalist of the year. He is also known as Fun Master Mike, as the lead
1:39.9	content creator for Chesskid.com. He's a Fideay master. He was a scholastic champion. He's a
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