The Chesspit Podcast

Hey everyone. Available on Apple, Spotify, Google and all other good podcast platforms, The Chesspit does its best to talk about chess while also occasionally letting itself not. We’ve already had six episodes and our next instalment will be a Candidates Special! Give us a listen, and don’t forget to subscribe and review if you like what you hear. link.chtbl.com/Em5DJkCs

And here is that Candidates Special! audioboom.com/posts/7530428-he-s-basically-forgotten-his-surname-candidates-preview-special

Huh. I'll have to give this a listen. Thanks for putting out audio chess content so I can have something interesting to do on my commute.

I had a chance to listen to about half of your episodes so far. I'm loving the podcast! Keep up your great work.

Thank you! Rating and reviewing us on your podcast platform of choice would be extremely helpful too.

Episode 8 is out on Thursday.

I'll definitely give it a review. I'm sort of listening to the episodes a bit out of order. I listened to episode two this morning. Did you guys ever clarify the etymology of the word "rook"? Because it has absolutely nothing to do with castles. It comes from the old Persian word "ruk" which means chariot. Also, it appeared you were getting the rice number (that you get for doubling the rice for each square of the board) mixed up the Shannon's number. I feel this appalling weakness of chess lore may effect the rating I give you...

Just kidding of course. Please keep up the awesome work!

From memory, that episode was extremely bitty to record due to outside interference and we probably just forgot to go back and define it.

If ever we get too professional, please let us know. :)

If you do get too professional, I can send you some more audio of my twins shouting, that should bring the tone back down again! :)

Episode 8 is here, even in these circumstances. Despite the economy, despite life: link.chtbl.com/Em5DJkCs

Got some bonus material today as we do a beginners' guide to Nepomniachtchi - Ding from today's Candidates: www.twitch.tv/videos/573562911