James Canty III | Growing Up In Detroit, The Chess Business, Dealing With Failure - Video

The boys caught up with @JamesCantyIII while in Toronto, and had a deep dive look into Canty's life as a chess professional. We talked about his upbringing in Detroit, finding chess at an early age, and being able to turn his passion into a full time job. Enjoy!

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00:00 Intro
01:25 James Childhood
04:44 Cool Chess Guy of the school
6:01 Fabi was little but VERY STRONG
08:07 Maurice Ashley as a mentor
10:59 Bringing fun to chess
15:02 Sponsors
19:47 Have You Always Been Business minded?
25:59 Early streaming days
29:10 New chessable course
33:05 Hikaru Nakamura
35:42 Favourite part of chess
38:38 how do you deal with failures?
41:49 Chess is the most written about subject
42:33 Do you still read chess books?
44:15 Flow state in chess
46:16 Endgames
49:39 Commentary, Playing or Streaming?
57:42 No more 9-5
58:44 James as a mentor

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