IM Lawrence Trent, IM Sean Nagle, and IM Attila Turzo
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This week’s podcast is a special feature that includes three different IM guests who are working to attain the Grandmaster title! My guests are popular commentator, IM Lawrence Trent, 9-time Minnesota State Champion IM Sean Nagle, and Hungary-based chess trainer, IM Attila Turzo. These guests have very different backgrounds, chess distances to travel and life situations, but they all share the common goal of wanting to earn the highest title in chess. Why is it important to them? What do they need to improve in order to climb this final steep step? What will their study routines entail? I know that many of you will also be pursuing new chess milestones and goals post-pandemic, so I hope that you find some good advice and inspiration in these 3 interviews! Please read on for more details and timestamps for each interview.
0:00- Intro
Mentioned: IM Kostya Kavutskiy, IM Eric Rosen, IM Kassa Korley, IM John Bartholomew, IM Greg Shahade, IM Abimanyu Mishru, IM Christopher Yoo, IM Carissa Yip
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6:00- IM Lawrence Trent joins the show! Lawrence is a frequent and popular chess commentator, streamer and content creator. He has served as the manager for his friend GM Fabiano Caruana, and was one of the co-hosts of the original chess podcast, The Full English Breakfast, with Macauley Peterson, GM Stephen Gordon, and GM Simon Williams. He joins us to share his reasons for deciding that now is the time for him to pursue his last GM norm and the 100 FIDE points that he requires to earn the GM title. If anyone dares to bet against Lawrence, he genuinely would appreciate it!
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Mentioned: GM Magnus Carlsen, Mike McDonald, Olivier Busquet, Fedor Holz, GM Emil Sutovsoky, GM RB Ramesh
24:00- Patreon mailbag question: “What defines the skill gap between IM and GMs?”
Mentioned: IM Ali Mortazavi, GM Keith Arkell, GM Mark Hebden, Sunway (Sitges) Chess Festival
45:00- Thanks to Lawrence for joining the show. Whether you would like to bet against him or root him on in his GM quest, you can follow him on Twitter here.
45:50- IM Sean Nagle joins the show. Sean is a Minnesota based Corporate and Securities Attorney, 9-time Minnesota State Chess Champion,husband, and dad of 3 kids.
Mentioned: IM John Bartholomew, GM Andrew Tang, GM Wesley So, FM Peter Giannatos
57:00- Patreon mailbag question: “What does Sean specifically need to work on in order to achieve the improvement he desires?”
Mentioned: IM Greg Shahade video: Chess Opening Study for Serious Players:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93kO7OXn9Lc
Also mentioned: GM Jacob Aagaard’s Killer Chess Training, GM Maurice Ashley, Tribe of Mentors, GM Alex Shabalov, IM Lawrence Trent, Jacob Aagaard’s Grandmaster Preparation Series, Universal Chess Training by GM Wojciech Moranda, Inner Game of Tennis, The Art of Learning, Against the Rules Podcast with Michael Lewis, Chess Improvement: Its All in the Mindset, Mindset by Carol Dweck, Grit by Angela Duckworth, Getting Unstuck: Break Free of the Plateau Effect, Boris Gelfand’s Series, FM Eduard Zelkind
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1:30:00- Thanks to Sean for joining us! You can follow him on Twitter here, or reach via chess.com here.
1:30:30- IM Attila Turzo joins the show.
Mentioned: GM R.B.Ramesh, GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov, GM Viswanthan Anand, GM Ben Finegold
1:41:00- Patreon mailbag question: “What separates Attila from the Grandmaster level?”
Mentioned: Leonid Kubbel, Slavin’s Chess series, GM Jacob Aagaard, Mark Dvoretsky, Mikhail Botvinnik. Alexander Grischuk, IM Greg Shahade, GM Pragganandha, Nagy Laszlo’s First Saturday Tournaments, IM John Bartholomew, FM Peter Giannatos
2:01:00- Thanks so much to Attila for joining the show. Here is how you can contact him and track his quest:
Twitch- https://www.twitch.tv/attilaturzo
Twitter- https://twitter.com/AttilaTurzo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCezDjmS_25xjLYi8_jLAWeA
First Saturday Tournament- http://www.firstsaturday.hu/2012/index.htm
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