Dark Squares: Danny Rensch on Chess, Cults, and Finding Purpose

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. This is the James Alteger Show. Dark Squares, How Chess Saved My Life. This is the most wild story, but also inspiring that I've ever heard. I kind of introduced this story a few months ago.

I had a 10-minute conversation with Danny Wrench, who wrote this book, and it's about his life. Basically, he grew up in this cult and as a 10-year-old, the cult leader was impressed with his chess abilities and took him away from his parents. He didn't see his mom for another 10 years after that. The story just gets more and more intense and crazy and ultimately inspirational. I was just riveted by the book and I was riveted talking to Danny, and I know you will be as well.

It's an inspiring story, but there's a lot of intensity. Danny, we've known each other now about almost a year and a half. We met a year and a half ago at Nor in Norway, Norway chess, Stavinger, Norway. And I on I'll confess something, I felt a little bad actually after, you know, we met and and then we were at that dinner that night. Um

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