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Author: Jennifer Shahade Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton ISBN: 1399701401 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 392
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'Like The Queen's Gambit, this isn't really about chess, but power' Sunday Times What does it take to make it to the top of your game? As a chess champion, Jennifer Shahade has travelled the world playing major tournaments. At the top, she finds rivalry and friendship; sexism and feminism; ecstatic highs and excruciating losses. Chess Queens invites us behind the scenes of this ultra male-dominated sport. We meet today's elite, as well as the pioneering female players in history who fought against the odds to get to the top. An essential guide for all aspiring chess queens, Jennifer's story reveals what it takes to break through the glass ceiling. 'Jennifer Shahade is a brilliant, insightful thinker who never fails to entertain and engage' Maria Konnikova 'An astoundingly intimate, thoughtful and inspirational book by a person who has seen it all from the inside' Angela Saini
Author: Jennifer Shahade Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton ISBN: 1399701401 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 392
Book Description
'Like The Queen's Gambit, this isn't really about chess, but power' Sunday Times What does it take to make it to the top of your game? As a chess champion, Jennifer Shahade has travelled the world playing major tournaments. At the top, she finds rivalry and friendship; sexism and feminism; ecstatic highs and excruciating losses. Chess Queens invites us behind the scenes of this ultra male-dominated sport. We meet today's elite, as well as the pioneering female players in history who fought against the odds to get to the top. An essential guide for all aspiring chess queens, Jennifer's story reveals what it takes to break through the glass ceiling. 'Jennifer Shahade is a brilliant, insightful thinker who never fails to entertain and engage' Maria Konnikova 'An astoundingly intimate, thoughtful and inspirational book by a person who has seen it all from the inside' Angela Saini
Author: Sylvia Lovina Chidi Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1291909435 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 374
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A total of 196 wonderful chess games played by great female chess players are illustrated in this book. They have been specifically selected to demonstrate chess openings, middle games and end games weaknesses and strengths. 160 carefully selected chess games of the current and past great female chess players in the World are included in this book. 8 fantastic games have been chosen from each of the modern greatest female chess champions. The remaining 36 games are games that include both previous and current female chess pioneers such as Vera Menchik and Susan Polgar. Each game comes with excellent instructional analysis by our Grand Chess Expert. This book is full of history and it is an excellent book for studying openings, middle games, end games and solving problems. Our Grand Chess Expert has spent quality time looking at all the different variations of all the top quality games played by our Greatest Chess Queens.
Author: Jennifer Shahade Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton ISBN: 1399701401 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 392
Book Description
'Like The Queen's Gambit, this isn't really about chess, but power' Sunday Times What does it take to make it to the top of your game? As a chess champion, Jennifer Shahade has travelled the world playing major tournaments. At the top, she finds rivalry and friendship; sexism and feminism; ecstatic highs and excruciating losses. Chess Queens invites us behind the scenes of this ultra male-dominated sport. We meet today's elite, as well as the pioneering female players in history who fought against the odds to get to the top. An essential guide for all aspiring chess queens, Jennifer's story reveals what it takes to break through the glass ceiling. 'Jennifer Shahade is a brilliant, insightful thinker who never fails to entertain and engage' Maria Konnikova 'An astoundingly intimate, thoughtful and inspirational book by a person who has seen it all from the inside' Angela Saini
Author: Walter Tevis Publisher: Rosetta Books ISBN: 079534306X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 276
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Netflix’s most watched limited series to date! The thrilling novel of one young woman’s journey through the worlds of chess and drug addiction. When eight-year-old Beth Harmon’s parents are killed in an automobile accident, she’s placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn more—and steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a tournament. Beth also steals some of her foster mother’s tranquilizers to which she is becoming addicted. At thirteen, Beth wins the chess tournament. By the age of sixteen she is competing in the US Open Championship and, like Fast Eddie in The Hustler, she hates to lose. By eighteen she is the US champion—and Russia awaits . . . Fast-paced and elegantly written, The Queen’s Gambit is a thriller masquerading as a chess novel—one that’s sure to keep you on the edge of your seat. “The Queen’s Gambit is sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years—for the pure pleasure and skill of it.” —Michael Ondaatje, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The English Patient
Author: L. S. Chidi Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781490381107 Category : Games Languages : en Pages : 388
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This book contains;• General statistics of the ratings of female chess players in the World. • Career profiles of the top 20 female players in the World as of February, 2013• A total of 196 wonderful games are illustrated in this book. The games have been specifically selected to demonstrate excellent openings, middle games and end game weaknesses and strengths.The lives and selected chess games of the following players are covered;Vera Menchik , Judit Polgar, Hou Yifan, Humpy Koneru, Muzchuk Anna, Dzagnidze Nana, Zhao Xue, Lagno Kateryna, Sebag Marie, Pia Cramling, Tatiana Kosintseva, Stefanova Antoaneta, Cmilyte Viktorija, Harika Dronavalli, Guinina Valentina, Gisela Kahn Gresser, Ludmilla Vladmirovna Rudenko, Mona May Karff, Susan Polgar, Asanga Nsisong, MelissaGreeff , Mona Khaled, Zhu Chen, Zatonskih Anna, Kosteniuk Alexandra, Khotennashvili Bela, Ruan Lufei, Ju Wenjun and Kosintseva Nadezhda.
Author: Alexander Alekhine Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 9780486271040 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 292
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One of the game's greatest players annotates scores of fascinating games involving Capablanca, Bogoljubov, Keres, Reshevsky, others. Included are many of Alekhine's own games, plus candid commentary on fellow masters, rivals.
Author: Alexandra Kosteniuk Publisher: ISBN: 9780979148279 Category : Chess Languages : en Pages : 0
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Women's World Chess Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk chronicles her rise to the top of the chess world in this introspective autobiographical work. Drawing from personal diaries kept during her youth, Kosteniuk takes the reader from the very dawn of her career as a child star in Russia, through triumph and disappointment, and finally to the pinnacle of success on the black-and-white battlefield.
Author: Jennifer Shahade Publisher: ISBN: 9781936277032 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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A collection of tactical positions from the world's best women chessplayers. Chess lovers of all levels can enjoy the puzzles, as the difficulty goes all the way from one-move killer blows to deep, complex combinations.
Author: Frank Brady Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486259250 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 482
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Revealing biography of the controversial chess champion, written by a chess player who knew Fischer since the latter was 11. It chronicles Fischer's tumultuous public and private lives, including an analysis of 90 games that trace his rise to supremacy plus a complete history of the1972 Fischer-Spassky match. 26 photographs.
Author: Jennifer Shahade
Author: Jennifer Shahade
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Author: Frank Brady