Quality Chess

He is just back from the Olympiad.

Although we actually didn't talk about the Olympiad too much because he's out with a fantastic new book called Chess Metamorphosis.

I really loved reading it.

I love these memoirs from top players.

And almost more so, obviously Nikita's incredibly accomplished, but almost more so when they weren't world champions, when they were incredible players but didn't quite reach the number one spot.

So you'll get a flavor for the book in this interview, and I think you'll enjoy it.

Before we get you to it, I wanted to thank this week's sponsor, Claude AI.

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... of the book, which, uh, well, and I'm really grateful to, uh, Quality Chess that they put, uh, such an effort, uh, like, you know, to, to make it happen, like to, to, uh, do like so many color, uh, colorful pictures, yes, and, uh, like really a lot of them, right? About, about hundred or I don't know, like-

Yeah, there's a lot of pictures

... seventies.

We had a book, Understanding Chess Exchanges, which is a very nice book.

It came out just over a year ago, Quality Chess.

We had a lot of nice, positive feedback, and it's more of a traditional, here's some games, and part of the game, some places, there's some exchanges.

We sort of focused more on that.