Magnus Carlsen is Unmatched, Anal Bead Cheating, & Which Ethnicity is Best at Chess
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What is discussed at the start of this section?
What's up, everybody? Welcome to Flagrant, and a new cheating scandal has rocked the chess world. You guys will learn all about it. A dynasty has been broken. Yes. Well, actually, not really, unfortunately. I might be the only person to cheat at chess and lose, but you guys will figure that out later. But today we are joined by an absolute legend in the chess community, a legend in the YouTube community. This is Levi Rosman.
What embarrassing stories do Levy and the hosts share?
We're very excited to have you here.
Dude, I'm excited to be here.
How does Levy describe his learning process in chess?
I've been talking about you on the pod for a little bit now.
Why did it take so long? Do you have the DM I sent you guys? No. You don't know this lore? No? 2022, I DM'd the flagrant pod. No! During the cheating scandal. No! No! Yeah, yeah. How did we let this happen? No, no, but it's also kind of embarrassing, yeah, because I got ghosted.
Well, was it read and then no one responded?
No, no, no. Okay. But that's how I kind of learned that you can't really DM people on Instagram to try to do collabs, really. I've tried since then, not just you guys. I think people just don't check the requests page.
Oh, that's the main account page. If you hit me directly, I would have been in the dead.
It's gone crazy. Not to, I was a little bit like. I don't even know who runs our Instagram page.
Yeah.
Because I was just like, oh, I watch, you know, I've watched UFC for so long. And obviously, you know, I saw like so much of Andrew's stuff during COVID and after. I'm like, oh, it would have been cool to talk about the scandal. But four years later, you know, it's all good. And that was really embarrassing for me. I have a really embarrassing story I could share here. Please. But I don't want to sidetrack it. No, we're not sidetracking. This is why you're here. You're kind of in the sphere of UFC. You've been on Ariel Helwani's show? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I once accidentally followed him for a whole commute. Yeah.
Doesn't Ariel live up in like Connecticut or something?
Well, I don't know that. That's a bit awkward. He was driving behind. No, no. So right before, I don't know if he remembers this because it's been a decade, but I do. You know, because you have fan interactions that are all over the place, right? Sometimes they're really excited, nervous. They don't know what to do. They try to small talk you. I'm on the train going downtown right before Floyd Conner. And I'm on the train and I'm going to a chess lesson because that was my career before I was a YouTuber. I see Ariel Hawane. I'm like, I want to go say hi. So I kind of walk over, we're on opposite sides of the train, so I'm already getting a little closer. Crazy guy gets on. Crazy guy yelling, violent. Everybody moves to the next car.
Now I'm following Ariel to the next car. I'm very aware that this probably looks weird. Worst part is we both get off in Fidei, because he's probably working there and I live there. His office is down there, yeah. Worst part is we're walking in the same direction to the same exit, because I live that way.
Best part is nobody's ever felt threatened by you. Yeah, that is true. So I don't know if he noticed.
And finally, I'm like, hey. And I talked to him a little bit. And I think I was so nervous. I asked him his opinion on the fight. And then at some point, I'm like, if you ever want recommendations in the area, we can get in touch. And I was like, why the fuck did I offer it? So now whenever I have an awkward fan interaction, I'm like, hey, I've been there, done that. And yeah, if I saw you or if I saw some UFC fighter, I think I will also be pretty nervous.
Did you tell him like, hey, I'm not following you. We're just going in the same direction.
I don't remember at this point. I don't want to know what I said. If he remembers this interaction, I'm going to be really. He thought he was working with the crazy guy.
Yeah, he was like, oh, this is all part of the plan. you bring the crazy guy on the train just reliving cringe is just so beautiful I was doing some like what's called ADR for this Street Fighter movie so basically like you don't say the line well enough or they need you to say something different so you go into this booth right
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:00–0:27
2
What embarrassing stories do Levy and the hosts share?
0:27–0:31
3
How does Levy describe his learning process in chess?
0:31–1:15:58
4
What are the historical cheating scandals in chess?
1:15:58–1:17:48
5
How does cheating affect the chess community today?
1:17:48–1:18:45
6
What are the challenges of making chess engaging for viewers?
1:18:45–1:19:24
7
How do speed chess games differ from traditional chess?
1:19:24–2:36:05
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