Welcome to week 12 of the Chess News Podcast where I discuss the Global Chess League, Faustino Oro’s second GM norm, FIDE updates, and more. The biggest event underway is the Global Chess League, taking place in Mumbai, India. It is the third season of this rapid chess event among teams, a joint venture between FIDE and sponsor Tech Mahindra. At the time of recording this podcast, 9 of the 10 rounds in the round-robin stage have been played and the winner of 2023 and 2024, Triveni Conti...

Welcome to week 10 of The Chess News Podcast where I discuss the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam, the FIDE General Assembly, and more. The 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour came to an end on Thursday and it was Magnus Carlsen, co-founder of Freestyle Chess, who won the Tour after coming second in the final leg in Grootbos, South Africa. Carlsen lost the final to Levon Aronian, who had also won the previous Grand Slam in July in Las Vegas. In an online meeting on Sunday, taking place on Zoom, FI...

Welcome to Week 9 of The Chess News Podcast, where I talk about the London Chess Classic, chess played underwater, and more. We're wrapping up the London Chess Classic, where Nodirbek Abdudattorov won the Elite tournament and scored 6 wins in a row between rounds 2 and 7. Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu tied for first in the Open and further cemented his lead in the FIDE Circuit. A remarkable event was held on Thursday in Cape Town, as part of several side events anticipating the upcoming Freestyle...

Welcome to week 8 of the Chess News Podcast, where I discuss the FIDE World Cup, the London Chess Classic, Google DeepMind's The Thinking Game, and more. SOURCES Sindarov wins! https://x.com/chess24com/status/1993642610368675899 Sindarov press conference https://x.com/FIDE_chess/status/1993691470864187515 London Chess Classic broadcasts https://www.youtube.com/@ChessinSchools/streams Ivanchuk’s loss on time https://twitter.com/ECUonline/status/1994835598658752617 The Thinking Game...

This podcast discusses the quarterfinals and semifinals of the FIDE World Cup, three matches from the Chess.com Speed Chess quarterfinals, the Women’s World Teams controversy, the announced participants of the FIDE World Rapid & Blitz, the Tata Steel Chess Challengers, and the Daniel Naroditsky Memorial and Fellowship Fund. SOURCES FIDE World Cup QF, game 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p1nr9kgwH4 FIDE World Cup QF, tiebreak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWBccUDXIc4 FIDE World ...

Welcome to week 6 of The Chess News Podcast, where I discuss the FIDE World Cup, the announcement of the FIDE Candidates, Magnus Carlsen beating Fabiano Caruana in the Chess.com Speed Chess Championship, the announcement of the Grand Chess Tour, Faustino Oro's match with Sandro Mareco and CBS' 60 covering chessboxing. Sources: FIDE World Cup Round 4, Game 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnfskWjHYik&t=7615s FIDE World Cup Round 5, Game 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1VioqLOI-g FIDE W...

Welcome to Week 5 of the chess news podcast where I discuss the FIDE World Cup, Hikaru Nakamura’s road to the Candidates, Eberechi Eze returning to school, and more. AUDIO SOURCES Maxime Vachier-Lagrave on beating Vladislav Artemiev https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAZ3NLImJJk Alexander Donchenko on beating Anish Giri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2hV0xGUByw Frederik Svane on beating Gukesh Dommaraju https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcEz5Co5fRQ Ian Nepomniachtchi exiting the World Cup https:...

This episode discusses Magnus Carlsen's victory at the Clutch Chess tournament in St.Louis, the three matches that were played this week in the Chess.com Speed Chess Championship, the start of the FIDE World Cup, two scientific articles related to chess, and other news. Audio sources: 2025 Clutch Chess | Champions Showdown: Final Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYydM0eGKcQ Maurice to Magnus the Champ: You Blew Up My Format! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbGEvta9bcs What Did Gukesh Think...

The third episode of The Chess News Podcast is, of course, mostly about Daniel Naroditsky. It’s been exactly a week since the terrible news broke that he had died at the age of 29. The chess world is still in shock and mourning the death of a brilliant and wonderful young man. At the same time, there is a long of anger toward especially Vladimir Kramnik as many believe that the former world champion has been too harsh upon Naroditsky, but there is also anger toward toward FIDE and how it has ...

Please note that this podcast was finished and about to be uploaded when I heard about the terrible and tragic news that Daniel Naroditsky has died. I think he was one of the best writers and commentators of our time, extremely funny, a great teacher of concepts, and full of knowledge and wisdom. I feel grateful that I could work with him for a bit and wish I could have known him more. My condolences to the family whom I wish strength in this very difficult times. The second episode discusse...

Welcome to the very first episode of ChessVibes weekly, a chess news podcast providing weekly updates of what’s happening in the chess world. I am your host Peter Doggers. Podcasting is a new thing for me, and I believe there might be an audience for regular updates on the chess news which you can listen to while doing other things. It’s an experiment, but I hope I can keep it up and you will like it. The main story in this first week is a Chess960 match between legends Garry Kasparov and Vis...