It should be noted that I was guest of chess.fm because of the request to have me on the show by those same listeners. When NM Dan Heisman contacted me originally he said "Do you think there is enough interest to sustain 20 minutes worth of questions?" and I really was not sure.

After 30 minutes of "Gothic Chess only", Tony Rook signalled that we should take a break. During the break commercials from sponsors were aired and they went over the tabulation of chess-specific questions to Gothic Chess-specific ones. The margin was heavily in favor of continuing, as there were about 50 unanswered questions in pipeline.

I honestly did not expect it to run the whole hour, but we went down to the wire with questions coming in down to the last second.

Dan issued the commentary to let people know Gothic Chess had not "taken over" chess.fm, that this was one week out of 52 that was dedicated to this variant. After the show, Tony and Dan both disclosed that this was one of the most active question & answer sessions that they had experienced with an "unknown" player (me) and they both thought it was very worthwhile.

I'd like to thank all of those who submitted some of those very interesting questions, and if you have any more, you know how to reach me.