My old friend IM Greg Shahade had quite a week.

• Beat the 31-time Jeopardy champion Jamie Ding

• Won $77,000 in a 4 show run.

• Was the subject of huge media attention (both positive & negative) to Jeopardy’s 7 million + nightly viewers.

We talked about all of this, plus Greg’s incredible 5 year ascension from trivia noob to Jeopardy champion, in his 40s. Greg discussed how his chess and poker background helped him, and gave lots of behind the scenes details on the taping. Not a lot of chess in this week’s podcast. Back to chess content next week!