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Hans Interview on chess.com :https://youtu.be/ZFBAuihQYgw?si=iJetA0l00CEPZM5J

Hans Interview on @STLChessClub : https://youtu.be/CJZuT-_kij0?si=Epp9lR_763dhzt8f

Daniel Rensch's X post responding to Hans: https://x.com/DanielRensch/status/1821536464364278091

00:00 Intro

00:56 Decoding Hans Interview

09:05 Danny's Tweets

21:30 Handling the problem of Cheating

26:40 Hans & Danny Rensch private Discussion

50:12 Hans Vs Magnus in Paris

The boys reunite after a short break to discuss the recent happenings from within the chess world. They discuss the Speed Chess Championship, the upcoming clash between Magnus & Hans, and the issues with fast paced chess competitions. Enjoy! 👕MERCH: https://c-squared.shop/ ▶️CLIPS CHANNEL 🎞️: / @csqclips ▶️PLAY WITH US : https://go.chess.com/csqpod ▶️DISCORD : / discord ▶️TIKTOK: / csqpod

00:00 Intro

01:00 World Team Rapid & Blitz Championship

17:12 Hans 30 minutes Interview

25:40 Magnus Vs Hans

38:16 Hans Niemann against the World

44:06 Jamaica Chess Scene

48:49 Innovation in Chess Boards

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Episode was filmed on March 4th, 2024

00:00 Intro

01:18 Candidates Drama

11:34 Semi finals of Team Chess Battle

29:15 Waiting for Finals

37:39 Limited Edition Merch

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▶️TEAM BATTLE CHESS FABI & CRISTIAN VS ANISH & DANNY : https://www.youtube.com/live/EYtrdPT0OyM?si=QraddCBpZEEdhZ0l

00:00 Intro

01:14 Fabi got food poisoned

03:20 Fischer Random OR Freestyle Chess

05:26 Tournament Branding

08:38 Fabi on the Tournament's Format

15:05 Freestyle Chess In The Spotlight

17:20 What's Happening to Ding Liren?

20:40 Difference between Normal and FreeStyle Chess

22:05 Fabi VS Gukesh

23:20 Fabi Vs Levon

28:30 Fabi suggested a few ideas for the Tournament

30:14 The Final VS Magnus

37:07 New Chess Tour

47:02 Team Chess Battle

1:00:00 Top Juniors

1:07:40 Young guys are fighting back

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The boys react to the St. Louis Chess Club issuing a one year ban for GM Hans Niemann, after the former was accused of vandalizing a hotel room during the 2023 US Championship. Fabi recounts a recent story of a late night chess party, and more!

00:00 Intro

00:30 Fabi Gets A Haircut

08:45 Secret Event In Germany

13:39 Freestyle Chess

17:00 The GOAT Debate is Back

18:35 The Tournament

23:44 Hans VS STL Chess Club Drama

44:14 Open Chess Tournaments

51:51 India No.1

52:15 Hans YouTube Journey

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00:00 Intro

00:26 Freestyle Chess

03:34 Tata Steel Chess

10:50 Crazy Round 12

18:30 Who's India's #1

20:50 Close Rating Range at the Top

21:37 Wei Yi is Back

24:24 What's Happening With Ding?

26:10 Why Chinese players Retire Early

28:22 Tata Steel Chess Tiebreaks

33:50 Old Memories

35:10 New Generation of Chess Players

41:00 Cheating Discussion for the one last time

The boys react to @Hikaru's reaction to Fabi's cheating analysis during his latest interview with Greg Mustreader . GET MERCH AND SHOW YOUR LOVE 👕 https://c-squared.shop/

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The boys are back with their first podcast of 2024! We discuss the first Candidates training camp, Tata Steel, recent cheating development, and much more! If you want to support the channel, the easiest way is to subscribe and turn on the post notifications. The second best is to tell everybody you know where the best discussions in chess happen!

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00:00 Intro

00:55 Happy new year

02:02 Rapid and Blitz

04:31 Chess drama - double forfeit

06:13 Chess drama - clock malfunction

12:44 Candidates Preparation

19:20 2016 Candidates Training Camp

21:41 2018 Candidates Training Camp

25:43 Handling a team of seconds

29:49 Hans-Fabi-Hikaru drama

34:54 Training Protocols in Chess VS Other Sports

38:24 Money in chess after winning

43:22 Tata steel masters - Ju Wenjun

46:17 Max Warmerdam

47:49 Young players

51:42 Ding Liren performance

57:26 Marc Andria

59:37 Divya Deshmukh

1:02:23 Hans Moke

1:03:53 Cheating in chess

The boys caught up with the great Maxime Vachier-Lagrave while in Toronto, and took a deep dive look into his major episodes of his life and chess career, the infamous Feller cheating scandal, his motivation going into 2024, and much more! 👕 GET YOUR MERCH : https://c-squared.shop/

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00:00 intro

01:06 CCT Tournament

02:15 Format of CCT

10:40 Wesley So

12:16 Armageddon

15:23 MVL talks about his fast play

16:06 Famous game against Ian

18:06 MVL dominant score

13:10 2021 World Champion

25:05 Will classical game survive in future?

28:46 how did life change after becoming a champion?

30:06 Having a good poker face

31:20 Hikaru has the worst poker face

32:36 Magnus curses in Norwegian

33:53 Wesley and Leinier fight club moment

34:31 Chess players nerves

39:06 how to bounce back

40:53 COVID

43:35 Speed Chess Championship

45:03 The SCC BEAST

45:29 Online Speed Chess vs OTB Speed Chess

46:27 When did you start playing chess?

48:51 Playing bullet with touchpad

49:38 French team

51:19 Olympiad 2022 India

53:38 Alireza

54:32 how important is the captain?

57:51 Marc'Andria Maurizzi

58:48 FRA Chess Team

1:00:17 How is your motivation level?

1:05:32

1:13:53 choice of opening

1:17:27 Decreasing attention span in chess

1:19:06 College

1:24:45 Major Olympiad cheating case

1:31:06 Spectators in chess

1:35:05 Cheating in online chess

The boys caught up with @JamesCantyIII while in Toronto, and had a deep dive look into Canty's life as a chess professional. We talked about his upbringing in Detroit, finding chess at an early age, and being able to turn his passion into a full time job. Enjoy! 👕 GET YOUR MERCH : https://c-squared.shop/ ▶️PLAY WITH US : https://go.chess.com/csqpod ▶️DISCORD : https://discord.gg/XeP3tENMTr ▶️TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@csqpod ▶️CLIPS CHANNEL 🎞️: https://www.youtube.com/@csqclips 🐦TWITTER https://twitter.com/CSQpod 📸INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/csqpod/ 🐦TWITTER FABI https://twitter.com/FabianoCaruana 📸INSTAGRAM FABI https://www.instagram.com/fabianocaru... 🐦TWITTER CRISTIAN https://twitter.com/CristianChirila 📸INSTAGRAM CRISTIAN https://www.instagram.com/crischirila 00:00 Intro 01:25 James Childhood 04:44 Cool Chess Guy of the school 6:01 Fabi was little but VERY STRONG 08:07 Maurice Ashley as a mentor 10:59 Bringing fun to chess 15:02 Sponsors 19:47 Have You Always Been Business minded? 25:59 Early streaming days 29:10 New chessable course 33:05 Hikaru Nakamura 35:42 Favourite part of chess 38:38 how do you deal with failures? 41:49 Chess is the most written about subject 42:33 Do you still read chess books? 44:15 Flow state in chess 46:16 Endgames 49:39 Commentary, Playing or Streaming? 57:42 No more 9-5 58:44 James as a mentor