Chess Underground Season 2 Episode 2 catches up with Maret Thorpe, NTD and FIDE arbiter, about customer service, career changes, and riding a mechanical bull. Also maybe some chess.  

Season 2 of the Chess Underground, Tournament Life, investigates the many nuances of the chess tournament subculture. What better way to kick off than with US Chess National TD and FIDE International Arbiter Bill Broich, who takes us from a hotel room in Reno to the open fields of Oklahoma.  

The Chess Underground is literally underground, in every sense of the word, live (on tape) from the quarantined, sheltered-in-place state of Illinois, where we check in from afar on the only show in town… in the world… the 2020 FIDE Candidates Tournament in Yekaterinburg, Russia. We look...