Bonus Pod- Adult Improvers Andrzej Kryzdwa and Stacia Pugh return!

Embrace the Process of Daily Chess Study

This week on Perpetual Chess, the first two adult improver guests return to the podcast 2+ years after our first interviews. Both Andrzej Kryzdwa and Stacia Pugh exude the same passion for chess today that they did in our prior conversation. They update us on their recent results, share some new study tips, recent chess realizations, and book recommendations

This week we have a special edition of Perpetual Chess, as the two first adult improver guests return to the show to update us on the state of their chess games, their lives, and their improvement regimens. The guests are Andrzej Krzydwa and Stacia Pugh, who both originally appeared on the show 2+ years ago (links to their interviews below.) Andrzej is a Polish small business owner, dad and programmer who manages to devote a ton of time to his chess improvement. At the time of our first interview he had just earned an IM norm by posting a dazzling 2579 performance rating in a tournament called the Katowice Spring 2018 . Stacia is a former professional cornhole player who now devotes all of her time to studying chess and teaching with Ohio’s Progress with Chess. At the time of our first interview she had gained 300 rating points in the prior years, and Stacia exuded an evident passion for chess improvement. Both guests come back with new improvement tips in addition to a continued appreciation of some of their favorite study methods mentioned in their first interviews. Lastly, I wanted to thank another former adult improver guest, Jason Cigan. A follow up with Jason was originally planned to be part 3 of this episode, but through no fault of Jason’s we encountered technical issues that forced me to postpone that interview.

For more detailed show notes with links go here:

Adult Improver follow up - Andrzej Kryzdwa and Stacia Pugh return!

Episode 76 with Andrzej Krzydwa, June 3,2018

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-76-andrzej-krzywda-adult-improver-series/id1185023674?i=1000413058930

Episode 87 with Stacia Pugh, August 14, 2018:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-87-stacia-pugh-adult-improver-series/id1185023674?i=1000417781378

0:00- Here is the info you need for the announcements made at the top of the show. 

The annoucements made at the top of the show are no longer applicable as of 12/2021

6:00- Andrzej Krzyydwa rejoins the show, and we dive right into an update of how his chess games have been going. 

Mentioned: Kasparov on Kasparov 

32:00- Thanks to Andrzej for coming back on the show, you can keep up with him via the following outlets:

Facebook page- https://www.facebook.com/From2100ToInternationalMaster

Twitter- https://twitter.com/From2100ToIM

33:00- Perpetual Chess Yasser Seirawan’s classic book Winning Chess Strategies is now available on Chessable.com! Check out a free sample of it here: 

https://www.chessable.com/winning-chess-strategies-free-lesson/course/50034/

1:01:00- Thanks to Stacia for stopping by and catching up. Here is how to keep up with her:

Chess.com blog-https://www.chess.com/member/midnaslament

YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn2k14U03rNRHApDIloxOkA

Twitter- https://twitter.com/StaciaMelinda

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