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Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson

NM Ben Johnson, USCF chess master and coach, host of the Perpetual Chess Podcast and author of Perpetual Chess Improvement.

Oct 12, 2026

JohnHOST
3:47
So how many slots is already full? Like, do you have a full schedule set already for like next five months or so?
3:53
I'll tell you what I have in the pipeline right now.
3:56
And some of it, and I'll give you like the full rundown where some of it might be more vague and some of it might be concrete, you know? So I'm going to interview Danny wrench from chess.com fairly soon.
4:07
Um, that's probably going to be in late March.
4:09
So not imminent.
4:10
He actually has a book coming out that I'm really excited, like a memoir about Yeah, absolutely.
4:34
So in terms of what you were saying, in terms of...

34 MINS LATER

JohnHOST
38:08
also get to know the the business and drill to to create a good one without overwhelming people cannot be too long i will just learn the right technique to create one at least but slow is nice because you know it's quite logical also for beginners and intimate players to to learn and play uh quite sound you want to get the bishop outside the pawn chain before playing e6 and so on quite nice ideas too so that's one of the ideas for for this year you know for the rest of the year Okay, so you recently played in a tournament, right, Ben, if you want to talk about the misery.

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