In Episode 118, I converse with Grandmaster Max Dlugy, an American Chess Grandmaster. Dlugy won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1985. He worked on Wall Street and became a principal of the Russian Growth Fund, a hedge fund. Nowadays he is the owner of Chess Max Academy. We speak about his presidency of the US Chess Federation, chess applications in finance, anti-cheating measures, improvement tips, the art of surprise, Dylan Mc Clain's recent New York Times article that we are both featured in, curriculum and more.