38 episodes
chessfeels: conversations about chess, psychology & mental health JJ Lang, Julia Rios
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- Leisure
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4.8 • 5 Ratings
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chessfeels is a weekly podcast about chess culture, improvement, and psychology from chess teacher JJ Lang and therapist Julia Rios. Tune in for irreverent conversations about this game we're all obsessed with.
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37: a conversation with Maya Marlette, chess thief
JJ and Julia interview Maya Marlette, a student of JJ's with a really cool chess backstory and an even cooler day job.
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36: chess therapy (no, not like that)
Julia and JJ switch hats now that JJ is cured. They discuss how to find and keep motivation for chess studying when time and energy are in short supply.
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35: Isaac Haxton, the chess/poker boygenius who lived
Julia and JJ interview their old family friend, Isaac "Ike" Haxton. They catch up on Haxton's illustrious poker career, his less illustrious chess career, and everything in between.
About Isaac: "Born in New York City, the young-looking 32-year-old Haxton (who bears a slight resemblance to Harry Potter) was raised in Syracuse by his psychiatrist mother and English professor father. His father introduced Haxton to various games of skill when Haxton was a young child. In fact, Haxton was playing chess at four years of age and, by age ten, was an avid and competitive Magic: The Gathering player.
Haxton attended Brown University and majored in computer science. However, poker was far more appealing, and Haxton—like many successful pros—swapped college for poker. At the age of 18, Haxton began to visit Verona, New York’s Turning Stone Casino. He started at $3/$6 limit Hold’Em before quickly increasing his stakes. At the same time, Haxton embraced online poker with his first $50 deposit on Ultimate Bet." source
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34: problems with you people (chess gripes)
A true festivus! (We have a lot of problems with you people!) We also miss you terribly. Today Julia and JJ explore the very depths of h3ll (US chess tournaments).
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33: better never than late
We're back! Very proud. We respond to a number of questions from our dedicated fans, solving both chess and mental health in the process.
Also, re audio quality, Julia didn't have her mic on her, which somehow meant that JJ's audio quality was worse. It will be better next time and we're going to start releasing episodes every two weeks.
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32: convince me! never goes away (part two)
You already know.
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Customer Reviews
Insightful, irreverent and fun.
Chessfeels is brilliantly entertaining whether you want to learn more about why we’re all obsessed with this simple board game, or you want to gain valuable insight into how your brain works while playing it. It covers an incredible spectrum of topics from psychoanalysis of chess players (including why psychology and the cognitive revolution haven’t progressed beyond Freud!) to how chess is really mutual ‘satisfaction’ for the players. I’m still not sure if JJ and Julia are two people, one person or an AI, but when a podcast is this much fun who cares?
P.S. I’m not serious about psychoanalysis vs psychology but you’ll have to listen to the podcast to get the joke…
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