Life is too short to refrain from eating jam out of the jar
In February 2022, I hit a new peak blitz rating of 2474. I had been grinding online blitz hard for several years, gradually improving from the 2100s, and finally I was ready to sniff the rare air of 2500. But just a little later, I had fallen out ...
The Bullet Chess Championship 2024 kicked off this week with a stacked lineup of FIDE top 10 players and bullet specialists! I gathered some data to highlight just how fast the fastest players on earth can play! Bullet chess is a wild terrain wh...
I had the chance to sit down and interview Detroit legend, National Master John Brooks! FM James Canty, also a Detroit native and chess family to Brooks, was there to aid tech support and even give a few of his own thoughts about Brooks. They were...
In 2018, Perpetual Podcast host Ben Johnson interviewed CM Andrzej Krzywda, a Polish chess player in his late 30s who, after decades stuck at a FIDE rating in the 2100s, had a remarkable breakthrough. Over the course of a year, Krzywda gained 150 ...
