The Chess Pit
Summary: A weekly podcast where three guys talk about chess… occasionally
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- Artist: The Chess Pit
- Copyright: Jon Mackenzie, Phil Makepeace, Robin Sarfas
Podcasts:
What came first: showjumping or chess? This and other mysteries are unraveled and reraveled in earnest as the guys' lockdown mania starts to bite.
Tales of coffeehouse legends, psyching out machines, and being infamous for losing make the grade this week.
The guys attend therapy as Scandinavian crime dramas, Formula 1, and powerful writing implements get a hearty airing.
No kinkshaming allowed this week as online cheating, communists and pies get a thorough outing.
This week is the long-promised and never-forgotten Tony Miles Special. And we have a new theme tune!
This week the guys travel the world, visit the high street, and hobble James Caan (again).
The boys preview the Carlsen Invitational and invoke the history of the Cricket World Cup
This week the boys manage to shoehorn goalkeepers, synesthesia and some actual chess chat into forty minutes.
Donkeys, goats and toddlers, y'say? Chris, Jon and Phil take up a stance against all three.
Phil struggles to say 'phenomenal', Jon gets wistful, and Chris has his proclivities analysed.
Despite rumours of self-isolation, the guys are here to talk about the Candidates, six-year-olds beating International Masters, and... wrestling?
Less of the 'occasionally' this week as the boys provide an idiot's guide to the 2020 Candidates tournament.
Jon reinvents pawns, Chris revisits the years 1862 and 2000, and Phil narrowly escapes his car being scrapped.
Can chess players be like football managers? May also contain Gregorian chanting.
Chris is on holiday, so Jon and Phil get chatting to Guardian Chief Sports Reporter Sean Ingle instead.