EP 500: Jan Henric Buettner on FIDE, Freestyle Chess and the Game’s Untapped Potential

Podcast: Perpetual Chess Podcast · Ben Johnson

Opublikowano: 2026-09-18

Jan Henric Buettner is a German entrepreneur, co-founder of Freestyle Chess alongside Magnus Carlsen, and a candidate for FIDE President. In his business career he has worked in technology, venture capital and hospitality. In our interview, we discuss: The logistical problems some participants encountered at the Olympiad and Jan’s own experience in Samarkand Why Jan believes chess still has vast untapped potential Whether Freestyle Chess can appeal to a wide audience Whether an outsider can defeat FIDE’s establishment candidate What Jan considers chess’s most underva...