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Friday Jul 31, 2020
Friday Jul 31, 2020
Chess and poker - what do these games have in common. In this interview Grandmaster Robert Fontaine talks about how he got into chess and shares useful advice for those who want to learn how to play chess. We explore why the popularity of chess is booming, what it takes to reach the top, look behind the scenes of the major chess tournaments and of course explore the parallels between chess and poker and which lessons from the chess industry could apply to poker.
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Time stamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:17 How Robert Fontaine got into chess
00:04:39 FIDE rating system
00:06:07 Chess tournaments
00:08:43 8 to 6 job
00:09:32 Playing the first chess tournament
00:14:30 Finding out the opponent's level of skill
00:17:39 What to focus on when first starting to play chess
00:22:22 What it takes to maintain the GM level
00:25:39 Chess is booming
00:29:24 Streaming and giving away information
00:35:41 Time pressure
00:36:28 Public available database
00:38:44 Poker and chess parallels
00:40:12 What separates a GM from a top-level GM
00:43:31 Chess time variants / poker variants
00:46:53 The huge gap between GM levels
00:51:12 Learning from better opponents
00:53:32 Analyzing the game together with the opponent
00:59:13 The difference between chess and poker
01:03:25 Chess lessons that apply in life
01:06:03 What keeps the top-level players motivated
01:08:51 AI changing the way top-level GM approach the game
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