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b'Welcome back to another edition of Perpetual Chess, Chess Books Recaptured, a monthly bonus book recap podcast. This week, I am joined by FM Alex Chua, a 32 year old Texas based dad, who works for a green chemical manufacturing startup called Solugen. Alex wanted to discuss the underrated gem, Improve Your Chess Now by GM Jonathan Tisdall, which he and I both love. We think it provides a great blend of instructive games, practical advice, philosophizing, and humor. It presents fairly challenging material, which is probably best suited to intermediate to advanced players, but anyone can pick up at least a few things from this book, as we hope they can from this podcast. Please read on for more details and timestamps.\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n0:00- FM Alex Chua and I begin by discussing why we love this book and wanted to talk about it.\\xa0\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\n12:45- For what rating level is this book most appropriate? Alex thinks 1400-2000, I think 1800-2300.\\xa0\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\n17:30- As always, Perpetual Chess is brought to you in part by Chessable.com. Two great courses to improve your chess now are: The Checkmate Patterns Manual and the Visualize Series. Links below:\\n\\nhttps://www.chessable.com/the-checkmate-patterns-manual/course/17841/\\n\\nhttps://www.chessable.com/visualise-1/course/25695/\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\n18:30- We list the chapters and then discuss our favorite chapters.\\xa0\\n\\nMentioned: The Complete Chess Swindler, The Seven Deadly Chess Sins\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n26:30- Why discuss two of the key concepts investigated in the book, GM Alexander Kotov\\u2019s \\u201ctree of analysis\\u201d, and the idea of using \\u201cstepping stone diagrams\\u201d to improve blindfold/visualization skills.\\xa0\\n\\nMentioned: Book Recap Podcast of Think like a Grandmaster with NM Christopher Chabris, GM Alexander Kotov\\u2019s Think Like a Grandmaster, GM Anatoly Lein, GM Jacob Aagaard, Book Recap Podcast of Blindfold Chess with Jerry Wells, Zurich 1953 by GM David Bronstein, GM Lubosh Kavalek, GM Anatoly Karpov, GM Ljubomir Ljubovic, GM Efim Geller, GM Vassily Ivanchuk, GM Boris Gelfand\\xa0\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\n48:00- We share a few of our favorite quotes and aphorisms from the book.\\xa0\\n\\nMentioned: GM Sam Shankland\\u2019s Small Steps to Giant Improvement\\xa0\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\n1:00:00- What are favorite games shared in the book? What are the chess improvement takeaways?\\xa0\\xa0\\n\\n\\xa0Ljubobevic-Torre 1975 , Polugaevsky-Petrosian 1983, IM Cyrus Lakdawala\\u2019s Rewire Your Chess Brain,GM Baadur Jobava\\u2019s Twitch Channel, Chessable\\u2019s Checkmate Patterns Manual\\xa0\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\n1:14:00- In lieu of payment, I am making a donation of Alex\\u2019s behalf to Lichess.org. Keep up the great work, Team Lichess!\\xa0\\n\\nMentioned: Simple Chess by Michael Stean, coming next month\\xa0\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nYou can message FM Alex Chua on lichess. Here is his account:\\n\\nhttps://lichess.org/@/highlama\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'