Life Lessons From Chess in 2024 | Episode 81 | Everything is Everything

Chess is a beautiful game -- and holds many lessons for life.

A lot happened in chess in 2024: Gukesh Dommaraju won the World Chess Championships, Arjun Erigaisi reached 2809, India won Olympiad golds, Magnus Carlsen threw his weight around -- and there are Life Lessons in it for all of us.

Welcome to Episode 81 of Everything is Everything, a weekly podcast hosted by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah.

In this episode, Amit shares the nuances in the events in chess in 2024 -- and draws timeless learnings from them.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
00:00 Packaging
00:13 Intro: Finding Life Lessons
01:35 Chapter 1: The Last Blunder
13:45 Chapter 2: The Game Outside the Game
25:50 Chapter 3: The Different Journeys of Gukesh and Arjun
42:13 Chapter 4: The Decline of Classical Chess
52:24 Chapter 5: Magnus’s Misbehaviour
1:10:44 Chapter 6: Computers and Coverage
1:14:14 Chapter 7: Sagar and Amruta

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1. Amit on Twitter:   / amitvarma  
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3. The Seen and the Unseen -- Amit's audio podcast: https://seenunseen.in/
(Also on all podcast apps. And YouTube, though less than 1% of listens come from here:    / @theseenandtheunseen  )
4. Ajay's organisation, XKDR Forum, on YouTube:    / @xkdr  
5. In Service of the Republic -- Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah: https://amzn.eu/d/hwGILb3
6. The Art of Clear Writing -- Amit's writing course: https://indiauncut.com/clear-writing/
7. The India Uncut Newsletter -- Amit's newsletter at https://indiauncut.substack.com/
8. Life Lessons -- a course taught by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah: https://lifelessons.co.in/
9. The Life and Times of Chess -- Episode 52 of Everything is Everything:    • The Life and Times of Chess | Episode 52 |...  
10. The Chess.com report on Gukesh's win, with analysis of Game 14 by Rafael Leitao: https://tinyurl.com/gukee
11. Gukesh interviewed at length by Sagar Shah after the World Championship:    • The inside story of Gukesh becoming the 18...  
12. The Hiking Episode -- Episode 35 of Everything is Everything:    • The Hiking Episode | Episode 35 | Everythi...  
13. Jan-Krzysztof Duda interviewed by Sagar Shah:    • "I am happy that I helped Guki win" - Jan-...  
14. Traffic -- Tom Vanderbilt: https://amzn.in/d/7ImBZ87
15. Life Chess Ratings: https://www.2700chess.com/
16. Vishnu Prasanna interviewed by Sagar Shah:    • I Always Thought Gukesh Had The Potential ...  
17. Hikaru Nakamura on Gukesh's game against Wei Yi:    • DID 3 BILLION WATCH GUKESH'S BEST GAME EVE...  
18. A Meditation on Form -- Amit Varma: https://indiauncut.substack.com/p/a-m...
19. Ajay Shah Brings the Dreams of the 20th Century -- Episode 402 of The Seen and the Unseen:    • Ep 402: Ajay Shah Brings the Dreams of the...  
20. The Disciple -- Chaitanya Tamhane: https://www.netflix.com/in/title/8138...
21. Magnus Carlsen's interview on Take Take Take about Freestyle Chess:    • Magnus Will Compete On The BIGGEST STAGE I...  
22. Hans Niemann interviewed in 2022 about his alleged cheating:    • Niemann: I Have NEVER Cheated Over The Boa...  
23. Magnus Carlsen on Jeansgate:    • Magnus Carlsen Jeans Scandal | Full Story  
24. Magnus Carlsen on getting his way:    • MAGNUS CARLSEN IS BACK!  
25. Emil Sutovsky about the organisation of the event: https://x.com/EmilSutovsky/status/187...
26. The match fixing suggestion: https://x.com/mytywarriorking/status/...
27. Sagar & Amruta meeting Gukesh in Singapore:    • We met Gukesh in Singapore after he became...  
28. Gukesh stating his ambition to Sagar Shah at age 11: https://x.com/amitvarma/status/186720...
29. Sagar Shah at the under-11 workshop all those years ago:    • Fun, humour and a lot of learning at Sagar...  

Produced by Amit Varma
Shot by Vaishnav Vyas & Nomsita MS Haritashya:   / vaishnav.vyas  
Edited by Nomsita MS Haritashya:   / nomsitaharitashya  
Thanks to Gaurav Chintamani for helping with sound:   / gaurav_chintamani  
Chapter image by Simahina:   / i_am_simahina