Rooked: The Cheaters' Gambit

Jess Schmidt & Ryan Webb

Welcome to Rooked: The Cheaters' Gambit. Join hosts Jess and Ryan as they unravel the ongoing chess cheating scandal (among other chess controversies). Elon Musk tweets - and then deletes - a joke (?) about cheating in chess via anal beads. Suddenly, the game of chess is thrown into the spotlight again, two years after the well-received debut of The Queen's Gambit Netflix series (we have no affiliation, but, like, the SEO is cool for us...and it was a pretty good show, in our opinions). But what the anal bead headlines are missing is the complicated web of accusations, slander...

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Rooked: The Cheaters' Gambit

Episodes (12)

Jul 16, 2024 Episode 10: The History
Jun 13, 2024 Episode 9: The Lawsuit
May 7, 2024 Episode 8: The Misogyny - A More Inclusive Future (Part 2)

Rooked: The Cheaters' Gambit

Jul 16, 2024
1½ hours
65 MB

Sometimes to figure out where you’re going, you have to look at where you’ve already been - so, here’s a brief history of ALL OF CHESS. Not really, but at least the parts that we think are interesting: who we think chess’ mommy is, the dictator lovin’ FIDE president who was abducted by aliens in yellow space suits, and where the Hawk Tuah girl fits into all this. If you’ve forgotten everything you learned in history class about the Russian revolution, you’ll love this one. Or maybe you’ll hate it - either way, have a listen an...

Rooked: The Cheaters' Gambit

Episode 10: The History

Jess Schmidt & Ryan Webb

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