Check, Please!

Released a day early to make up for last week being a day late. You know what they say, the early bird gets the cool flame decals! Theme music: Deep Fritz (Karpov Not Kasparov) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Additional music: Getting It All Together (Rockit Maxx) / CC BY-NC 4.0

The (half an) hour of judgment is upon Stephen as The Overlord takes over! Who shall live? Who shall die? Find out! Theme music: Deep Fritz (Karpov Not Kasparov) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Additional music: Getting It All Together (Rockit Maxx) / CC BY-NC 4.0

Stephen "It's All Staying In" O'Neil strikes again! Theme music: Deep Fritz (Karpov Not Kasparov) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Additional music: Getting It All Together (Rockit Maxx) / CC BY-NC 4.0 Cascade Masquerade (Blitz Lunar) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

An alternate episode 20 fell through a dimensional rift! This will have no repercussions on future episodes, no matter what wishes any genies grant. The podcast equivalent of the book of the television version of Game of Thrones. Theme music: Deep Fritz (Karpov Not Kasparov) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

In this episode, Will Binns is captured and Stephen is forced to recap general plot elements for the listener. Who got the worse end of the deal? You decide! Also Stephen forgot to make a chess move but we added it back in smoothly. Theme music: Deep Fritz (Karpov Not Kasparov) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Additional music: Getting It All Together (Rockit Maxx) / CC BY-NC 4.0

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he was Freddy Krueger but actually just being a guy named Will? We'll show him what we think of that in THIS special returning guest installment of Check, Please! Chess plays a factor. Theme music: Deep Fritz (Karpov Not Kasparov) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Additional music: Getting It All Together (Rockit Maxx) / CC BY-NC 4.0

In this episode, we go... Undercover. Theme music: Deep Fritz (Karpov Not Kasparov) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Additional music: Getting It All Together (Rockit Maxx) / CC BY-NC 4.0 Clichy Waltz (Dana Boulé) / CC BY-NC 4.0 Lampion (Pre) / BY-NC-SA 3.0

One man's trash is another man's treasure, but what about the trash of two men once it has been recovered from a third man's treasure vault? Why, it's a Check, Please! Also, a conspicuous lack of (canonical) chess! Theme music: Deep Fritz (Karpov Not Kasparov) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Stephen's Corner Theme: Cascade Masquerade (Blitz Lunar) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

The thrilling conclusion to the Tower Heist pempto-tertiary triptych. Will the hosts tie up their loose ends, or will they be on the losing end of their own tangled plot lines? Also, chess remains a pertinent factor? Theme music: Deep Fritz (Karpov Not Kasparov) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Additional music: Getting It All Together (Rockit Maxx) / CC BY-NC 4.0

The wait is over! Our heroes finally storm Trump Tower! A golden episode. Plus: more chess? Theme music: Deep Fritz (Karpov Not Kasparov) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Additional music: Getting It All Together (Rockit Maxx) / CC BY-NC 4.0

In this episode, we read off alternate names and have colds. Sorry! Theme music: Deep Fritz (Karpov Not Kasparov) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Stephen's Corner Theme: Cascade Masquerade (Blitz Lunar) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Background: Café Brazil Walla (AshFox) / CC BY 3.0

In this episode, we put the "correspondence" back in "correspondence chess" despite still being sat at the same table in a New York café. Also we're kind of both jerks for a while, but keep listening! We learn a lesson! Also I swear we're gonna get to that heist any episode now, people. Theme music: Deep Fritz (Karpov Not Kasparov) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Background: Café Brazil Walla (AshFox) / CC BY 3.0

When the original recording for episode 12 falls in to the small hands of a New York realestate mogul, the hosts have to come out of retirement for one last job. Will their plans for a classic Tower Heist come to fruition, or will this one really... go to the birds? Theme music: Deep Fritz (Karpov Not Kasparov) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Background: Café Brazil Walla (AshFox), https://www.freesound.org/people/AshFox/sounds/172968/ / CC BY 3.0

Lines become blurred as the game gets heated, but will it be curtains for our heroes' morality? Theme music: Deep Fritz (Karpov Not Kasparov) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

What if the podcast was just a bunch of nonsense? Like, even more than usual? Find out in this one, where a wizard bit one of us! Theme music: Deep Fritz (Karpov Not Kasparov) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

In this episode, we don't really talk about much, but we sure do talk a lot. And then later, when words fail, we sing. Truly: An episode? Theme music: Deep Fritz (Karpov Not Kasparov) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

A new era of friendship emerges as our two combatants find common ground. Personal histories are revealed! But will any more chess be played? Theme music: Deep Fritz (Karpov Not Kasparov) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

In a daring attempt to rescue Stephen, a sentient service begins to show its hand (this would work better if we were playing cards, not chess). Note: Podcast no longer updating on SoundCloud! Theme music: Deep Fritz (Karpov Not Kasparov) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

The boys get back together with some old friends (from Cthulhu on Parade!) for one last job. An American patriot and a Devilish personality emerge. (Originally uploaded 01/03/2016) Theme music: Deep Fritz (Karpov Not Kasparov) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Call security. (Originally uploaded 23/02/2016) Theme music: Deep Fritz (Karpov Not Kasparov) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0