
Ep. 230 Flashback: Chris Wainscott (1800 USCF) Ep. 29
This episode of Chess Journeys is an excerpt from Episode 29 featuring Chris Wainscott. Chris is a founding member of the chess punk community with lofty improvement goals. We had a wide ranging conve...
20 Okt 202522min

Ep. 229 Gabby (1950 USCF)
This week on Chess Journeys, I spoke with Gabby. We had a fun chat reminiscing about playing chess together 20 years ago, her progress in the 2010’s, and her recent chess journey in France. Gabby disc...
16 Okt 202557min

Ep. 228 Flashback: Neal Bruce (1800 USCF) Ep. 20
This episode of Chess Journeys is an excerpt from Episode 20 featuring Neal Bruce, the father of adult chess improvement. It was my first conversation with Neal, and it was wide ranging. In the follow...
13 Okt 202524min

Ep. 227 Donovan (1200 USCF)
This week on Chess Journeys, I spoke with Donovan. He’s juggling being an involved parent, a full time career, and chess improvement. We spoke about his on again off again relationship with chess over...
9 Okt 20251h 6min

Ep. 226 Flashback: FM Nate Solon Ep. 11
In this week's flashback episode, I bring to you a snippet of my conversation with FM Nate Solon from episode 11. In this portion, we talked about the following. Spending too much time on Puzzles. The...
6 Okt 202526min

Ep. 225 Tristan (1600 USCF)
This week on Chess Journeys, I spoke with Tristan. He’s a dedicated chess improver that is also helping run the Phoenix chess scene. We talked about his chess journey from 1000-1600 in 2 years. He hig...
2 Okt 202556min

Ep. 224 NM Solomon (Youtube - The Chess Giant)
This week on Chess Journeys, I spoke with Solomon, aka The Chess Giant). We covered a lot of topics such as his childhood chess journey, his pursuit of 2200, making chess content/courses, and his advi...
25 Sep 20251h 20min

Ep. 223 Flashback: Stacia Pugh (1700 USCF) Ep. 31
This week's flashback episode comes from episode 31. Stacia Pugh has a great story quickly rising from 1000-1700 USCF before falling back to her floor of 1500. But after changing everything about her ...
22 Sep 202524min



















