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Magnus Carlsen is half a point clear going into the final day of the World Rapid but, as you'd expect, he has a host of top names on his tail. Phil and Robin round up Day Two from Warsaw and also respond to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave's complaints about the event.
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Join Phil and Robin as they round up the first five games from the FIDE World Rapid Championship in Warsaw.
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Just like with the World Chess Championship, the guys will be doing daily recaps of all the World Rapid & Blitz action in Poland from 26-30 December. For now they provide a history of the Championships, assess the leading contenders, and make some dodgy predictions!
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Have we all calmed down yet? Do you miss the drama? Jon, Phil and Robin are here for you, adorned with pipe and slippers, to tell you the tale of the 2021 World Chess Championship.
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It's all over! We congratulate Magnus Carlsen on his fifth World Championship victory and ask what's next for him. We also put his legacy into an historical context and wonder how likely it is that Nepomniachtchi can recover to challenge Carlsen again in 2023.
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With the match all but over as a contest, we've invited astrophysicist Leeds fan David Vizgan of 64: A Chess Podcast to talk all things World Championship and wider chess sphere!
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Game 10 was one of the shortest and most straightforward so far, so Phil and Robin mainly analyse Magnus's approach for the home straight starting Friday. They also discuss how successful, or otherwise, the daily press conferences have been.
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With the World Chess Championship all but over as Ian Nepomniachtchi blunders again, the boys are back to talk Game 9, what this means for the match as a whole and what we should expect from the next few games.
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With Nepomniachtchi's capitulation in Game Eight, Jon and Robin spend some time breaking it down and thinking about the impact it will have on the World Chess Championship going forward.
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After yesterday's Game 6 drama, everyone expected a quieter (and shorter) game today. And so it transpired: a short and snappy draw carries us over the halfway point in the World Chess Championship.
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WE HAVE A DECISIVE GAME FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FIVE YEARS! Jon and Robin give you a whistlestop review of the sixth game of the World Chess Championship and pep you up ready to go again tomorrow.
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It's the second Rest Day of the World Chess Championship but that's not stopping us! Jon is joined by a couple of very special guests to talk about the action so far. Benji Portheault and Dan Gallagher are both chess coaches and luminaries of the chess world. Listen to their thoughts on the WCC narratives, the availability of high-level punditry, sports washing, the "solutions" to draws and much, much more!
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Ian Nepomniachtchi had a little opportunity today, but Game Five eventually fizzled to another repetition. Hear the guys' reactions to Carlsen finally looking vulnerable, as well as their discussion on possible shorter time limits.
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A fourth draw to follow the rest day, which now in effect makes this a ten-game match. As the tension ramps up in Dubai, find out whether Phil and Robin's opinions have ramped up too. And is accuracy in chess a direct antithesis of entertainment?
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Robin's no longer snowbound in the East Midlands, so he's able to join Jon and Phil for a look back at the first three games of the World Chess Championship, as well as a discussion of what might happen next.
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Three days, three draws. But this is a marathon, not a sprint, and we're not even a quarter of the way through the match. Join Jon and Phil to see if their overarching thoughts on the match narrative have changed ahead of tomorrow's first rest day.
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A second consecutive draw, but again not one without intrigue. Phil and Jon also ask whether chess coverage is negatively affected by referral to engines' opinions of heavily-nuanced positions.
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The World Chess Championship has begun in Dubai! Join Jon and Phil for the first of many daily game recaps.
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It's here! No fluff this week as we do The Big Chess Pit World Chess Championship Preview Podcast with Phil, Robin & Jon. Find out what's occurring in Dubai over the next three weeks.
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This week Phil is guarding against scurvy, but still gets his metro rail system opinions trashed by Jon and Robin. We also round up the FIDE Grand Swiss and do a preview of next week's World Championship, er... preview.
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