Freestyle Chess, FIDE and the Life of a Chess Professional - Casual GM Podcast | Episode 1

Welcome to my first-ever podcast! I decided to team up with a fellow GM Wojciech Moranda and share our unfiltered opinions about everything that matters in the chess world. In the first episode, we talked about the divide between Freestyle Chess and FIDE and what we think of Felix Blohberger's hot take that being a chess professional sucks! Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 04:07 - About ourselves and the title of the podcast 16:43 - Does it really suck to be a chess professional? 36:07 - Freestyle chess vs FIDE 53:24 - Who can organize a World championship? 01:11:40 - Wojciech's new Chessable course! 01:21:54 - Solving a puzzle ➡️ Wojciech's first-ever course on Chessable - https://www.chessable.com/calculate-like-a-beast-the-moranda-method/course/279827/ ✨ Check out my new Patreon page - https://www.patreon.com/GMNeiksans ✨ You can support me by upgrading to Chess.com Premium membership (I get a small commission from it) - https://go.chess.com/arturs ✨ Leningrad Dutch: Simplified has been released on March 29! https://www.chessable.com/leningrad-dutch-simplified/course/225232/ ✨ My King's Indian Attack course - https://www.chessable.com/100-repertoires-kings-indian-attack/course/154650/ ✨ My Sicilian Kan course - https://www.chessable.com/lifetime-repertoires-kan-sicilian/course/100043/. ✨ My Reversed Sicilian course - https://www.chessable.com/lifetime-repertoires-reversed-sicilian-/course/72271/ ✨ Donation also works! https://streamlabs.com/gmneiksans/tip --------------------------------- 🌌 Social Media Links: ✨ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gmneiksans ✨ Discord Community: https://discord.gg/e24pKUuH4N ✨ GM Neiksans Chess Club: https://www.chess.com/club/gm-neiksans-chess-club ✨ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GMNeiksans ✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gmneiksans/ ✨ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GMNeiksans 📧 E-mail for a business inquiry: [email protected]