EP.171 - Chess Twitch Streamer GoldDustTori (adult improver series) from Perpetual Chess Podcast

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EP.171 - Chess Twitch Streamer GoldDustTori (adult improver series)

1 hour 14 minutes Posted Mar 31, 2020 at 5:35 am.

FIDE Candidates Coverage Resources: Chess.com Youtube, Chess24YouTube, US Chess YouTube, Powerplaychess

Tori introduces herself and explains how she got into chess and chess streaming.

As Tori explains, when she started streaming chess, she barely knew the rules of the game. How has she gone from 0 to 1600 in less than 1.5 years?

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Tori answers a few questions from our Patreon supporters relating to what time control she thinks one should play at in order to improve, and what she has learned from streaming with super strong players like GM Daniel Naroditsky and GM Jon Ludvig Hammer?

Tori reflects on her first live tournament, which took place at the North American Open in Las Vegas in December of 2019.

Tori discusses a recent special event in which participated: The Isolated Queens tournament, organized by Alexandra Botez and Jenn Shahade.

Tori fields a couple of questions and comments relating to how she deals with haters and trolls.

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GM Denes Boros writes in to ask how her perception of the chess world has changed as she has gotten to know it better.

What would Tori’s “bullet point” advice be for how to improve at chess?

-What are Tori’s current chess and Twitch goals?

Thanks so much to Tori for joining the podcast. Here is how you can keep up with her:

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In the 16 months since she got into chess, 23 year old Chess Streamer GoldDustTori has seen both her online following and her Chess.com rating grow quickly. As her chess.com rating graph shows, she has gone from not knowing what en passant is, to a blitz rating which recently topped 1600. In our conversation, Tori retells how she got into chess and chess streaming, and shares how her consistent focus on a few key aspects of chess improvement have helped her boost her rating.

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Mentioned: TwitchCon, GM Eric Hansen of the Chessbrahs, WIM Alexandra Botez, IM Danny Rensch, John Urschel, World of Warcraft, GM Aman Hambleton, IM Eric Rosen

Mentioned: Tori’s YouTube Channel, Her Twitch Channel, including archive

https://www.chessable.com/chess-tactics/

Mentioned: IM Hans Niemann, GM Daniel Naroditsky, NM John Williams, chess.com drills/lessons

Mentioned: GM Irina Krush, WGM Katerina Nemcova

Mentioned: Taylor Swift’s Miss Americana, Scene from From Dusk til Dawn mentioned by IM Christof Sielecki (starting at

Mentioned: National Open

Mentioned: IM Eric Rosen

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/golddusttori

YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3rJHTCrXPLn4tfWQLTELA

Twitter: https://twitter.com/golddusttori?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/golddusttori/?hl=en

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