In Episode 169, I converse with Grandmaster Alexander Fishbein, who is a Director and Desk Strategist at TD Securities. He won the 1st Denker Tournament of High School Champions in 1985. He also has earned the 1st place prize at some of the United States' major open tournaments, including the World Open and the National Open. One of his other major claims to fame is beating Super Grandmaster Alexei Shirov.
We speak about winning major national tournaments, applications of chess in finance, top improvement tips, training his son Mitch to become a master, his family's immigration to the United States from Russia due to anti-semitism, his new book The French Exchange Comes to Life and more.