Welcome to the Perpetual Chess Link-Fest!

Here is some recent chess content of interest...

Hi everyone, Ben here! Some of you may know me as the host of the Perpetual Chess Podcast. That job requires me to be fairly on top of the chess news, so I decided to launch a free weekly newsletter, that, quite simply, will share some of the best online chess content I have consumed within the previous week. It will cover both chess news and chess improvement, as well as many other chess adjacent topics. As of now I have no plans to charge for this, or to write much on my own within this space. This will mostly be a collection of chess links with brief comments. Lets get to the first Weekly Chess Link Fest:

2022 Chess Olympiad Links

Uzbekistan and Ukraine win the Chess Olympiad by Colin McGourty (Chess24.com Article)

Fantastic interview/profile of GM Ivan Sokolov by Peter Doggers. Sokolov is a top player turned coach of the Gold Medal Winning Uzbekistan team (Chess.com Article)

Excellent Video Interview by IM Sagar Shah, again with the fascinating GM Ivan Sokolov (Chessbase India YouTube )

IM Connor Murphy’s Performance at the Chess Olympiad was “not just good, it was phenomenal”- (Irish Times Article)

IM Levy Rozman interviews GM Gukesh, one of the stars of the Chennai Olympiad “I actually broke something after that game.”- GM D Gukesh (Gotham City YouTube )

Chess Improvement and Advice for Amateurs

FM Nate Solon on How he Avoids “Blitz Tilt” (Zwischenzug Blog)

TheOnoZone on the Experience of Playing his First Chess Tournament (Lichess Blog)

Other Tournaments- The FTX Crypto Cup and the Abu Dhabi Masters

The latest coverage on the ongoing FTX Crypto Cup in Miami (Chess24 Article)

GM Hans Niemann has been Extremely Frustrated by his Poor Results so Far in Miami, and we Hope He’s OK (Chess24 YouTube)

The Strong and Entertaining Abu Dhabi Masters open tournament is ongoing. Here is IM Eric Rosen’s recap of GM Baadur Jobava’s brilliant miniature win over him (Eric Rosen’s YouTube

(Black to move and win in the position from the game below- answer in this link)

That’s all for this week! I welcome your feedback, and I hope you all found this worthwhile! - Ben