C-Squared Podcast
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The C-Squared Podcast is an in depth weekly discussion about the chess world with your hosts, Grandmasters Fabiano Caruana and Cristian Chirila. Bringing the biggest news and chess stars to your doorstep!
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Sports & Recreation Podcasts
Description:
The C-Squared Podcast is an in depth weekly discussion about the chess world with your hosts, Grandmasters Fabiano Caruana and Cristian Chirila. Bringing the biggest news and chess stars to your doorstep!
Twitter:
@CSQpod
Language:
English
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Episodes
What Happened At The CANDIDATES? Fabiano's Highlights
5/2/2024
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Duration:01:55:24
Team Chess Winners POV, The American Cup Race Begins | C-Squared Podcast #66
3/12/2024
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Duration:00:37:51
Is The Candidates Tournament In Danger?
3/5/2024
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00:00 Intro
01:18 Candidates Drama
11:34 Semi finals of Team Chess Battle
29:15 Waiting for Finals
37:39 Limited Edition Merch
Duration:00:38:47
Is Freestyle Chess The Future? Team Battle V.S. Anish & Danny Gets HEATED!!
2/24/2024
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00:00 Intro
01:14 Fabi got food poisoned
03:20 Fischer Random OR Freestyle Chess
05:26 Tournament Branding
08:38 Fabi on the Tournament's Format
15:05 Freestyle Chess In The Spotlight
17:20 What's Happening to Ding Liren?
20:40 Difference between Normal and FreeStyle Chess
22:05 Fabi VS Gukesh
23:20 Fabi Vs Levon
28:30 Fabi suggested a few ideas for the Tournament
30:14 The Final VS Magnus
37:07 New Chess Tour
47:02 Team Chess Battle
1:00:00 Top Juniors
1:07:40 Young guys are fighting back
Duration:01:10:21
The Hans Niemann Ban, Late Night Chess Battles, Freestyle Chess Challenge
2/24/2024
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The boys react to the St. Louis Chess Club issuing a one year ban for GM Hans Niemann, after the former was accused of vandalizing a hotel room during the 2023 US Championship. Fabi recounts a recent story of a late night chess party, and more!
00:00 Intro
00:30 Fabi Gets A Haircut
08:45 Secret Event In Germany
13:39 Freestyle Chess
17:00 The GOAT Debate is Back
18:35 The Tournament
23:44 Hans VS STL Chess Club Drama
44:14 Open Chess Tournaments
51:51 India No.1
52:15 Hans YouTube Journey
Duration:00:55:39
It's Over | Tata Steel Winners & Losers, New Generation Has Arrived
2/2/2024
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00:00 Intro
00:26 Freestyle Chess
03:34 Tata Steel Chess
10:50 Crazy Round 12
18:30 Who's India's #1
20:50 Close Rating Range at the Top
21:37 Wei Yi is Back
24:24 What's Happening With Ding?
26:10 Why Chinese players Retire Early
28:22 Tata Steel Chess Tiebreaks
33:50 Old Memories
35:10 New Generation of Chess Players
41:00 Cheating Discussion for the one last time
Duration:00:46:34
Is Chess Dead?? Our Honest Reaction To Hikaru...
1/27/2024
The boys react to @Hikaru's reaction to Fabi's cheating analysis during his latest interview with Greg Mustreader . GET MERCH AND SHOW YOUR LOVE 👕 https://c-squared.shop/
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Duration:00:45:00
Fabiano Begins Training For Candidates , Tata Steel, Cheating Remains A Problem
1/26/2024
The boys are back with their first podcast of 2024! We discuss the first Candidates training camp, Tata Steel, recent cheating development, and much more! If you want to support the channel, the easiest way is to subscribe and turn on the post notifications. The second best is to tell everybody you know where the best discussions in chess happen!
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00:00 Intro
00:55 Happy new year
02:02 Rapid and Blitz
04:31 Chess drama - double forfeit
06:13 Chess drama - clock malfunction
12:44 Candidates Preparation
19:20 2016 Candidates Training Camp
21:41 2018 Candidates Training Camp
25:43 Handling a team of seconds
29:49 Hans-Fabi-Hikaru drama
34:54 Training Protocols in Chess VS Other Sports
38:24 Money in chess after winning
43:22 Tata steel masters - Ju Wenjun
46:17 Max Warmerdam
47:49 Young players
51:42 Ding Liren performance
57:26 Marc Andria
59:37 Divya Deshmukh
1:02:23 Hans Moke
1:03:53 Cheating in chess
Duration:01:20:29
MVL | Major Olympiad Cheating Scandal, Motivation, Alireza's Impact
1/7/2024
The boys caught up with the great Maxime Vachier-Lagrave while in Toronto, and took a deep dive look into his major episodes of his life and chess career, the infamous Feller cheating scandal, his motivation going into 2024, and much more! 👕 GET YOUR MERCH : https://c-squared.shop/
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00:00 intro
01:06 CCT Tournament
02:15 Format of CCT
10:40 Wesley So
12:16 Armageddon
15:23 MVL talks about his fast play
16:06 Famous game against Ian
18:06 MVL dominant score
13:10 2021 World Champion
25:05 Will classical game survive in future?
28:46 how did life change after becoming a champion?
30:06 Having a good poker face
31:20 Hikaru has the worst poker face
32:36 Magnus curses in Norwegian
33:53 Wesley and Leinier fight club moment
34:31 Chess players nerves
39:06 how to bounce back
40:53 COVID
43:35 Speed Chess Championship
45:03 The SCC BEAST
45:29 Online Speed Chess vs OTB Speed Chess
46:27 When did you start playing chess?
48:51 Playing bullet with touchpad
49:38 French team
51:19 Olympiad 2022 India
53:38 Alireza
54:32 how important is the captain?
57:51 Marc'Andria Maurizzi
58:48 FRA Chess Team
1:00:17 How is your motivation level?
1:05:32
1:13:53 choice of opening
1:17:27 Decreasing attention span in chess
1:19:06 College
1:24:45 Major Olympiad cheating case
1:31:06 Spectators in chess
1:35:05 Cheating in online chess
Duration:01:39:32
James Canty III | Growing Up In Detroit, The Chess Business, Dealing With Failure
1/1/2024
The boys caught up with @JamesCantyIII while in Toronto, and had a deep dive look into Canty's life as a chess professional. We talked about his upbringing in Detroit, finding chess at an early age, and being able to turn his passion into a full time job. Enjoy! 👕 GET YOUR MERCH : https://c-squared.shop/ ▶️PLAY WITH US : https://go.chess.com/csqpod ▶️DISCORD : https://discord.gg/XeP3tENMTr ▶️TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@csqpod ▶️CLIPS CHANNEL 🎞️: https://www.youtube.com/@csqclips 🐦TWITTER https://twitter.com/CSQpod 📸INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/csqpod/ 🐦TWITTER FABI https://twitter.com/FabianoCaruana 📸INSTAGRAM FABI https://www.instagram.com/fabianocaru... 🐦TWITTER CRISTIAN https://twitter.com/CristianChirila 📸INSTAGRAM CRISTIAN https://www.instagram.com/crischirila 00:00 Intro 01:25 James Childhood 04:44 Cool Chess Guy of the school 6:01 Fabi was little but VERY STRONG 08:07 Maurice Ashley as a mentor 10:59 Bringing fun to chess 15:02 Sponsors 19:47 Have You Always Been Business minded? 25:59 Early streaming days 29:10 New chessable course 33:05 Hikaru Nakamura 35:42 Favourite part of chess 38:38 how do you deal with failures? 41:49 Chess is the most written about subject 42:33 Do you still read chess books? 44:15 Flow state in chess 46:16 Endgames 49:39 Commentary, Playing or Streaming? 57:42 No more 9-5 58:44 James as a mentor
Duration:01:00:17
Chaos Hits The Chess World. Let's Talk About It.
12/24/2023
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Duration:00:53:37
Dear Vladimir...
12/10/2023
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Duration:00:23:15
Garry Kasparov | Coaching Magnus & Hikaru, Match VS Kramnik, AI & Computer Era
12/10/2023
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00:00 intro 00:31 Rona "Garry, I feel sorry for you." 02:59 Emotions in chess 09:50 Why was Garry so dominant for decades? 14:39 Garry's leaked database 20:28 working with computers 23:32 how much do you trust the engine? 27:37 how does Fabi deals with dependency on engines? 30:37 Garry as a coach to Magnus 45:11 Garry as a coach to Hikaru 50:20 Author 54:54 Why did Magnus did not defend the title? 58:13 Garry as an organizer 1:04:10 how do you feel about playing chess these days?
Duration:01:07:36
VICTORY At The Sinquefield Cup, Cheating Saga Continues, Candidates Race
12/4/2023
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00:00 intro
00:19 Sinquefield Cup 2023 Winner!
03:58 Fabi vs Alireza
06:29 Fabi vs Wesley
11:14 chess coaching
16:40 Chess coaches are expensive
27:29 Fabi vs Richard
30:00 is Hans cheating?
39:19 Kramnik
44:09 http://chess.com ratings are meaningless
49:35 Kramnik's petition
53:10 Kramnik's suing http://chess.com?
1:08:30 Fabi's rant
1:12:59 merch talk
Duration:01:16:47
Victory At The Rapid & Blitz, Kramnik's Blog Gets A SPICY Update
11/21/2023
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Duration:01:02:19
Isle Of Man Recap, Race To The Candidates HEATS UP, Rapid & Blitz WC Is WHERE??
11/10/2023
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
00:10 FIDE Grand Swiss discussion
03:07 Fabi's decision to play the GrandSwiss
08:16 Why a coach is important during competition
13:36 game analysis
21:17 game against Hikaru
27:43 game against Keymer
30:19 Vidit Gujrathi
32:42 Alireza
41:15 Erigaisi
44:18 Sindarov
45:14 Fabi's rant
50:13 will Magnus play candidates?
51:52 Ding's health issues
53:56 Rapid and blitz during Christmas
1:06:07 How does Fabi gets ready for tournament?
1:08:49 Cristian first jiujitsu competition
1:11:49 outro
Duration:01:11:59
Isle Of Man, Kramnik's New Blog, Hikaru VS Alireza in Candidates Showdown
10/31/2023
The Isle Of Man Grand Swiss has finally started. The boys get talking about Kramnik's new blog, the difficulties of getting to Isle Of Man, and the upcoming fight for the last candidate spots. Enjoy! The episode was filmed on 10.24.2023
Duration:00:37:52
Abhimanyu Mishra: Youngest Grandmaster In HISTORY on Goals & His Intense Training Systems
10/31/2023
The youngest grandmaster in chess history joins us for an intriguing discussion about his journey, including traveling during the pandemic to reach his goals, future plans, lack of sponsorships in chess, and more. Enjoy, and don't forget to please the Youtube gods by subscribing and spreading the word. Cheers! Episode was filmed on 10.19.2023 Our Discord is popping, join the conversation here: https://discord.gg/XeP3tENMTr Want to improve your chess?♟️Come Play With Us! https://go.chess.com/csqpod TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@csqpod CLIPS CHANNEL 🎞️: https://www.youtube.com/@csqclips 🐦TWITTER https://twitter.com/CSQpod 📸INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/csqpod/ 🐦TWITTER FABI https://twitter.com/FabianoCaruana 📸INSTAGRAM FABI https://www.instagram.com/fabianocaru... 🐦TWITTER CRISTIAN https://twitter.com/CristianChirila 📸INSTAGRAM CRISTIAN https://www.instagram.com/crischirila
Duration:01:00:15
The Champs are Here! Fabiano Caruana & Carissa Yip talk about the US Championship
10/21/2023
The boys talked to WGM Carissa Yip after she became the 2023 US Women's Champion. She shares her impressions of the event, similarities with Fabiano's championship journey, collegiate chess, beating a Grandmaster at 10, and more! The episode was filmed on 10.18.2023Join our Members zone and get access to special perks https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQWKH5DiO9_gBAQWQAaBnow/join Want to improve your chess?♟️Come Play With Us! https://go.chess.com/csqpod CHAT ON DISCORD: https://discord.gg/XeP3tENMTr TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@csqpod CLIPS CHANNEL 🎞️: https://www.youtube.com/@csqclips 🐦TWITTER https://twitter.com/CSQpod 📸INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/csqpod/ 🐦TWITTER FABI https://twitter.com/FabianoCaruana 📸INSTAGRAM FABI https://www.instagram.com/fabianocaru... 🐦TWITTER CRISTIAN https://twitter.com/CristianChirila 📸INSTAGRAM CRISTIAN https://www.instagram.com/crischirila
Duration:00:50:31
Hans Niemann VS Fabi In Crucial US Championship Game, Magnus Starts Drama In Qatar
10/20/2023
Crucial round coming up at the US Chess Championship, while Magnus starts a big cheating drama at the Qatar Masters. The boys discuss everything! The episode was filmed on 10.14.2023, better late than never!
Duration:01:04:51