Jan 29, 2021
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by American chess grandmaster and U.S. Olympic Gold Medallist Sam Shankland to explore issues including:
—The onerous process of becoming a grandmaster in chess, and why
SO few chess players ever earn the title of grandmasters,
—Just how realistic the Netflix series, the Queens
Gambit, was at portraying chess,
—Why
some chess games can last up to 7 hours,
—Whether or not humans will ever be able to compete with
computers at chess, and finally…
—Why people who have
never played chess before should still care about chess.