Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time Shahade Jennifer
Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time Shahade Jennifer For fans of The Queen's Gambit, this is the real life story of a female chess champion…
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Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time Shahade Jennifer
For fans of The Queen's Gambit, this is the real life story of a female chess champion travelling the world to compete in a male-dominated sport with the most famous players of all time.Jennifer Shahade, a two-time US Women's Chess Champion, spent her teens and twenties travelling the world playing chess. In this ultra male-dominated sport, Jennifer found shocking sexism, but she also found friendships, feminism and hope.Through her own story as well as interviews with international players, Jennifer invites us into the extremely competitive world of chess. Tournaments have taken her from Istanbul to Moscow, and introduced her to players from Zambia to China.
She describes the coach who told her that her period She shows us the rivalry and the camaraderie; the ecstatic highs and the excruciating losses; the glamour and the hard work.
Chess queens - Jennifer Shahade