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OUTLINE:

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(00:00) – Introduction

(10:15) – Trip to Italy

(17:16) – Chess tournaments

(22:03) – Streaming

(34:07) – Chess strategies

(54:33) – King’s Indian Defense

(1:12:33) – Chess training

(1:16:59) – Losing

(1:20:18) – Street chess and trash talk

(1:25:07) – Passion and study

(1:43:00) – Loneliness and depression

(2:07:49) – Andrew Tate

(2:16:32) – Greatest chess player of all time

(2:19:07) – Magnus Carlsen

(2:28:17) – Advice for young people

(2:30:10) – Chess boxing

(2:39:04) – Meaning of life

(2:40:09) – Love