Love your podcast and hearing relatable stories of folks on their chess journey like me. I bought the chessnut pro using your code tonight. I play in a lot of the unrated clubs around LA and hope playing longer time controls on the chessnut will prepare me for OTB rated games some day.

This is a brilliant podcast which makes the world of amateur chess - the realm that most chess players inhabit - fully to life. At the urging of my grandson, I took up online chess in the wake of the pandemic and it has become my passion, displacing golf. Disclosure: I am not an “adult improver”, as I turned 80 last month. I suppose you might call me an “elderly improver”. I had to chuckle when the host complained of slowing calculation speed after age 47. Believe me, it slows to a crawl if you live into your 80’s. The beauty of chess is that it doesn’t matter, there are always opportunities to explore the depths of this wonderful game.

Bruce Neal makes so much sense. I recently just got into chess at 45. I’m not delusional but I am so sick of the “you can’t do it culture.” I’d rather listen to reasons how you can then reasons why you can’t. Episode 24 with Kevin Perrera was great in 2021… bring him back!

This is best amateur chess podcast plus perpetual chess.