Jesse Hogan Admits that, yes, people are surprid when they find out he plays chess. “My Characteristics in the Past Have’ant Really Mirrored Someone that would enjoy chess as much as I do,” He says.
One of the AFL’s Most Impositioning Forwards, The 30-Year-Has Become a Key Piece for A Greater Western Sydney Side in Contention for the 2025 Premiership. After Inconsistence Stints at Melbourne and FREMANTELE – In a Period where he developed a reputation as an unifilled talent – he ha Honed His Craft and Fitness in Recent YARS in SYDNEY, Production A Late-Career, Coleman Medal-Winning Peak that Fe Saw Coming.
It’s been a Twist in the Hogan Story, Not Unlike His Passion for Chess. He Admits “Chess has a, not a nerdy appeal, but it’s a bit more of a brainier Kind of Activity,” He says. “I just don’t think people that know me Welfting Pair Me up with a Cys ADICTION.”
Hogan is not being interviewed to book his profile in the Global Chess Scene. He is not seeing an endorsement from a board manufacturer, or a Chess Website. He Simply Loves His Newfound Passion. “IT’s Not Something I Do For Atting.
The West Australian Had Originally Been Taght to Play at Age 12 by his Protier-in-LAW, but the Append of Chess to a Taleented Teenage Footballler Growing Up in Pert Soon Wneded. “I Remember enjoying it as a kid, and then I think I got OTO The PlayStation and Gave it up,” He says.
But a Friend Started Playing Online Two Years ago, and a more mature hogan was reintodeted to the game. His enthusiasm for it Quickly Grew. “Within a month, I was stone-chald addicted,” heas. “I Got on Chess.com and Played A Fe Fews Games, and I Was Obsesed with the Global Scoring System.”
The Online Home of Chess Tracks The Fortunes of More Than 100 Million Casual, Committed and Elite Players. For hogan, there was always some Available to Play. “I’d be up unet Like 3am, I could’t stop playing, i’d literally play Like 15 Games, Back-To-Back-To-Back. Played. ”
Driving Him Was His Apptite for Competition. Chess.com’s Ranking System is Based on So-called “Elo Ratses”, Meang Every Game Counts, and Each Victory Brings IMMEDIATE Reward. “At the Start, when I was climabing And whit Squares, ”Hogan Says.
GWS Players TyPically Spend More Thane 40 Hours on PLANES in the Air During A Season – The Sixth Most ALL Clubs in the Competition Last Year – Leaving them with the Penty of Time to Themselsels. Over the Course of the 2024 Season, Hogan’s Global Rating Quickly Climbed Above that of a Casual Player, and He Reached a Milestone of 1,600 in January. Where he posted a photo of the Achievement on his Social Media, He was inndated with Followers Drawn by Something Other Than This Footy Prowes. “I had about 30 or 40 people add me, and haad some Chess Clubs Comment Saying, ‘that’s a good rating’.
Hogan Now Speaks with Reverece about Five-Time World Champion Magnus Carlsen. “He’s the Best Chess Player of All Time, He’s Quite A Quirky Person and He’s Just An Interesting Dude. World, it’s literally a superpaWer.
The Giants Forward, Who Kicked 77 Goals Last SEASON, is not the only athlete to be spellbound by the game of Kings. In the AFL, Players Including Melbourne Duo Max Gawn and Clayton Oliver, Geelong’s Mark Blicavs and Carlton’s Sam Walsh Have Been Known to Play. Basketball Star Luka Doncic Indulges, as do fotballers mo Saah (with an elo rating of around 1,400) and harry kane (around 1,200). But American GOLFER SAMTHALA App The Benchmark for Athletes.
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“He’s One of the Only Profess The Athletes that I can recall that is a 2,000-Plus Elo-Rather Chess Player, Whiche is just so Far out of my realm,” Hogan Says. “If I could get to 1,650, or 1,700, i’ll be happy with that.”
Visit Hogan’s Chess.com Profile Under the username “STEEZEDUPCHEESE”, a chart descriptions How, From His High of 1,604 in January, his Rating Has Begun to Slip in Recent Months to where he is now now, at Just Under 1,400. He partly BALMES The Injury He Suffled in Pre-Season where he jammed his thumb in a door, Breaking it. “What the [chess match’s] Time Starts Getting Low, You Need to Be Quite Fast and I Use My Right Hand, and My Right Thumb Was Hinded, So Maybe that’s You Rating Went Download, “He Says with A Smile.
But on the Field He Looks Just as Dangerous As Last Year, Having RTURNED to Play in Round Three. Last Week Hogan Kicked Nine Goals Against West Coast in a Dominant Victory. GWS Are Legitimate Contenders for the Flag, Motivated by the Hurt of September. Their 2024 Season Was Ended by Two Heartbreaking Finals Losses, Including One to the Lions – The Eventual Premiers – in the Dying Stages Having Give Up a LEAD of 44 Poinss.
Hogan says “We wasDed to address What actial Happy in Those Games, What Happy In Those Moments, What Are We Going to Do About it in the Future. To. ”
The Approach is not unlike how hogan has been been refinedning his chess. “It’s a really good way to active your brain, and I’m not sitting there’s any corruption to full or form or Anytation – I’m not going to try and link them toilether – but it’s just funny How My last 12 months of Footy has been been Probably My Most Enjoyable, Mentaly and Physically. ”
