Late 2 Chess

L2C 061: Patience in Chess

L2C 061:  Patience in Chess Bill gets up onto his soapbox for this one and tried to explain why patience in chess is so important but often overlooked in most chess are

L2C 060: Tao of Chess and Bill's Latest OTB Tournament

L2C 060:  Tao of Chess and Bill's Latest OTB Tournament On this week's episode, we try to squeeze in a double shot.  We cover the chapter in the Tao of Chess on tempo. 

L2C 059: IM Kostya Kavutskiy

L2C 059:  IM Kostya Kavutskiy We were honored to have International Master Kostya Kavutskiy on the podcast.  We talked all things chess and the ChessDojo, as well as ou

L2C 058: AI Assistance in Chess Improvement and Listener Questions

L2C 058:  AI Assistance in Chess Improvement and Listener Questions The Doctor has been hard at work on his game and has become a big fan of working with AI to review h

L2C 057: Chess Camp with the Chess Dojo

L2C 057:  Chess Camp with the Chess Dojo The Chess Dojo announced that they would be holding a camp helping players chess games.  We were immediately interested but lif

L2C 056: Visualization and Mental Processing with Aiden Rayner

L2C 056:  Visualization and Mental Processing with Aiden Rayner All chess players can agree that thinking is a large of our game and a key component in our success at t

L2C 055: Welcome Back - To The Doctor and OTB Chess for Bill

L2C 055:  Welcome Back - To The Doctor and OTB Chess for Bill Summer is rapidly coming to a close and The Doctor has returned to the podcast from his sabbatical, lol. 

L2C 054: How to Annotate and Analyze Your Game (101) with Claude Fried

L2C 054:  How to Annotate and Analyze Your Game (101) with Claude Fried It is often said that in chess one of the best ways to improve is to study your games, often ann

L2C 053: Bill on the Sofa - State of the Union Update as of July 2026

L2C 053:  Bill on the Sofa - State of the Union Update as of July 2026 Bill reviews what he has been up to and how his chess game and study have been progressing over t

L2C 052: Claude Fried Returns to Answer (Some) of Bill's Dumb Questions

L2C 052: Claude Fried Returns to Answer (Some) of Bill's Dumb Questions Many/Most/All(?) chess players seem to be obsessed over chess openings. In an effort to help, Cl

L2C 051: Space: Our Tao of Chess Book Series Continues

L2C 051:  Space:  Our Tao of Chess Book Series Continues Our Tao of Chess series continues with this episode focused on the importance of space when playing chess.  Don

L2C 050: Non-Chess Factors to Improve Your Game

L2C 050:  Non-Chess Factors to Improve Your Game We started off with a simple listener question:   What do you think are things that are not directly related to chess p

L2C 049: Speed Runs / Slow Runs

L2C 049:  Speed Runs / Slow Runs One of Bill's favorite soft learning activities is to watch slow runs/speed runs and we go into several that he has found to be most he

L2C 048: Hanging Pawns

L2C 048:  Hanging Pawns An awesome conversation with Stjepan Tomic about a ton of topics including his chess progress and what he has found to be the best ways to impro

L2C 047: The Tao of Chess - Pawn Structures

L2C 047:  The Tao of Chess - Pawn Structures This week, we discuss various aspects of the pawn structure and how we perceive this area to apply to our games at our curr

L2C 046: Freestyle Chess, Fischer Random, and Chess 960 - part 1

L2C 046:  Freestyle Chess, Fischer Random, and Chess 960 Is Freestyle chess good for beginner and intermediate players?  Does it help you improve your chess game?  Do w

L2C 045: Blitz and Bullet for Chess improvement

L2C 045: Blitz and Bullet for Chess improvement One of the hot topics on the internet seems to be whether or not to play blitz and bullet early in your chess improvemen

L2C 044: All About the ChessNoteR

L2C 044:  All About the ChessNoteR One of the bigger transition when playing over the board, live, in person chess from playing online is that keeping track of the move

L2C 043: All About the Chess Dojo

L2C 043:  All About the Chess Dojo We are always talking about the Chess Dojo and it is largely because it has helped both of us so much.  We then decided to talk about

L2C 042: Best Books and Courses - Volume 1

L2C 042:  Best Books and Courses - Volume 1 We go through the best books and courses we have used to date so far.  Unsurprisingly, our picks differed, lol.  This is a c