Alex O'Connor and Jordan Vasseur

Your Week in Chess

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We are two chess lifers turning on microphones during our conversations! Sometimes we're trying to get better, sometimes we are trying to escape normal lifes, but we are always trying to have fun!

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Alex O'Connor and Jordan Vasseur

Episodes

A Brief Encounter of the Chess Kind 05.03.2024 35:56

Wooooohooooooooeeeeee

Your Week in (chess) Drama 12.02.2024 32:26

Chess, movies, fun

The Kermit Has No Clothes 04.02.2024 41:01

We shouldn't be allowed to be this cute and funny

Chess Noire 13.01.2024 33:17

Inside, a man nursing a glass of something strong, the ice clinking like dice in a backroom game. His eyes, the color of week-old coffee, are fixated on a chessboard, the pieces locked in a silent, deadly tango. We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to being you Chess Noire, a mysterious chess podcast!

Impossible Questions About Life 27.12.2023 34:31

We only leave so we can come WAY back baby!

Chess Tourney = Bodybuilding 20.11.2023 27:18

Jordan is solo today with an instant reaction to a tournament game played and recorded a couple months ago! Come for the weight lifting analogy and stay for the dive inside the stress of a weekend long tournament! Here are the moves if you want to laugh at my loss! 1. e4 e6 2. d4 b6 3. Nc3 Bb7 4. Nf3 Bb4 5. Bd2 Bxc3 6. Bxc3 Bxe4 7. d5 Nf6 8. dxe6 O-O 9. exf7+ Rxf7 10. Ng5 Re7 11. Bxf6 gxf6 12. Nxe...

Precambrian Chess 05.11.2023 36:06

Whooooopieeeee we are talking about chess and hiking and being bad at technology and are just generally have a great time! Correspondence: https://www.chess.com/game/daily/576749449

Magnus Carlsen is a Crybaby 23.10.2023 32:41

Albeit a GOATED Crybaby

Over the Board Chess Lyfe 06.10.2023 37:34

This is a fun podcast for fun people!

Victorian Sickness 06.09.2023 39:00

Guys! Do you like fun! I like fun and it's jam packed in this episode. Jordan went to his second ever chess tournament and did okay! He's also dealing with the aftermath of a sickness which turns laughs into coughs! Alex has taken his English opening out to pasture in favor of e4! He also got to play a satisfying Uno reverse card against a BMing opponent. Here is the article discussed: htt...

Chessenheimer 19.08.2023 35:02

The review of Oppenheimer YOU have been waiting for! We construct the greatest piece of chess-cow crossover based art in the world! Get in here, we are having a great time! We definitely worked overtime hours for BS pay in this weeks extra long correspondence game: https://www.chess.com/game/daily/548614131

Chess is a Winter Activity TBH 12.08.2023 36:53

The boys are enjoying their summer! Jordan by the pool with a drink in hand, and Alex hiking mountains with a toddler strapped to his back! Alex wins this weeks correspondence game in classic style - shutting Jordan's belligerent attack Correspondence game: https://www.chess.com/game/daily/545965137

Is Chess Just Enraging? 28.07.2023 28:55

Alex shares a strategy to decrease the stress of online chess. While Jordan ventures further out in the real world of over the board. The boys discuss a reddit post where a fellow chess play has let rage consume his experience.

Playing Chess in Person is a Joy 08.07.2023 30:14

Jordan talks about his very first over the board chess tournament. While Alex navigates the impact of his second child on his investment in chess.