Perpetual Chess Podcast

Sports & Recreation Podcasts

Perpetual Chess features weekly conversations with the chess world's best players, trainers and accomplished amateurs about their careers, current projects, best practices and the latest in chess news. Learn more at PerpetualChessPod.com

Episodes

EP 483- Paulo SantAnna: What Happens When a Retired Adult Treats Chess Like a Full-Time Job?

EP 482- GM Ivan Sokolov on Talent, Training and Modern Chess

EP 481- IM Greg Shahade: Inside His Incredible Jeopardy Run

EP 480- GM Eugene Perelshteyn & NM Mike Mahoney: Chess Rocky-Taking on Nakamura & Niemann at the Naroditsky Memorial

EP 479 – GM Rafael Leitão on Sindarov’s Historic Candidates Win, His Training Methods & What Comes Next

EP 478 – GM Ben Finegold on the Candidates, the Hans–Magnus Netflix Documentary, and TakeTakeTake’s Bold Business Move

EP 477- Jennifer Shahade on Cheating, AI, and Thinking Like a Chess Player

Bonus Pod: Sindarov’s Historic Start + Inside the FIDE Candidates with Mike Klein

EP 476-Vlad Ghita: Is the Rating System Still Broken? A Data-Driven Investigation

Book Recap #38- Silman’s Chess Odyssey + Stories from a Former Student with Gaurav Datta

EP 476- GM Jan Gustafsson previews the 2026 FIDE Candidates

EP 475- Matt Biancuzzo (Byredofantome) on Keeping Chess Fun, Ignoring Rating, and Making Viral Chess Videos

EP 474- NM Han Schut on GM Jan Timman’s Legacy, Chess Improvement, & Using LLM’s to Create Helpful Chess Tools

EP 473- GM Aman Hambleton on SCC London, The London System & The Future of Chess

EP 472- Author Katie Kormanik on How Chess Helped Shape Her Life, and Why She Left it Behind

EP 471- Dr. Kevin Scull on Adult-Only Tournaments, Plateaus and Progress

EP 470- GM Yasser Seirawan on Fischer, Najdorf, Silman & How he Became a GM-Level Storyteller

EP 469- Author Brad Stulberg on What ‘Excellence’ Means for Amateur Chess Players

EP 468- FM Carsten Hansen on Tactics Plateaus & The Best Recent Chess Books

EP 467- GM Surya Ganguly on Gratitude, Overcoming Bad Tournaments & Life Lessons from Vishy Anand