Your Week in Chess
Your Week in Chess
Alex O'Connor and Jordan Vasseur
We are two chess lifers turning on microphones during our conversations! Sometimes we're trying to get better, sometimes we are trying to escape normal lifes, but we are always trying to have fun!
A Brief Encounter of the Chess Kind
Mar 5, 2024
35 min
Your Week in (chess) Drama
Chess, movies, fun
Feb 12, 2024
32 min
The Kermit Has No Clothes
We shouldn't be allowed to be this cute and funny
Feb 4, 2024
41 min
Chess Noire
Inside, a man nursing a glass of something strong, the ice clinking like dice in a backroom game. His eyes, the color of week-old coffee, are fixated on a chessboard, the pieces locked in a silent, deadly tango. We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to being you Chess Noire, a mysterious chess podcast!
Jan 13, 2024
33 min
Impossible Questions About Life
We only leave so we can come WAY back baby!
Dec 27, 2023
34 min
Chess Tourney = Bodybuilding
Jordan is solo today with an instant reaction to a tournament game played and recorded a couple months ago! Come for the weight lifting analogy and stay for the dive inside the stress of a weekend long tournament! Here are the moves if you want to laugh at my loss! 1. e4 e6 2. d4 b6 3. Nc3 Bb7 4. Nf3 Bb4 5. Bd2 Bxc3 6. Bxc3 Bxe4 7. d5 Nf6 8. dxe6 O-O 9. exf7+ Rxf7 10. Ng5 Re7 11. Bxf6 gxf6 12. Nxe4 Rxe4+ 13. Be2 Qe7 14. O-O Rxe2 15. Qd5+ Kg7 16. Qxa8 Nc6 17. Qc8 Ne5 18. Qxc7 h5 19. Qc3 Ng4 20. Rae1 Qd6 21. Qg3 Qd2 22. Rxe2 Qxe2 23. h3 f5 24. hxg4 fxg4 25. Qb3 Kg6 26. Qd3+ {*}
Nov 20, 2023
27 min
Precambrian Chess
Whooooopieeeee we are talking about chess and hiking and being bad at technology and are just generally have a great time! Correspondence: https://www.chess.com/game/daily/576749449
Nov 5, 2023
36 min
Magnus Carlsen is a Crybaby
Albeit a GOATED Crybaby
Oct 23, 2023
32 min
Over the Board Chess Lyfe
This is a fun podcast for fun people!
Oct 6, 2023
37 min
Victorian Sickness
Guys! Do you like fun! I like fun and it's jam packed in this episode. Jordan went to his second ever chess tournament and did okay! He's also dealing with the aftermath of a sickness which turns laughs into coughs! Alex has taken his English opening out to pasture in favor of e4! He also got to play a satisfying Uno reverse card against a BMing opponent. Here is the article discussed: https://www.curbed.com/article/club-chess-maneros-of-mulberry.html
Sep 6, 2023
39 min
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