Updated: 21 Feb 2021, 9:03
GRANDMASTER Jennifer Shahade, 40, is a two-time US Women’s chess champion. She lives in Philadelphia with husband Daniel, 45, and son Fabian, four.
Here, she tells her extraordinary life story, from watching her father and older brother playing the game at the age of six to proving once and for all that chess is not a man s game.
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Jennifer Shahade is a two-time US women s champion chess playerCredit: JenbyMariaE
“My heart raced as I finally made checkmate against my opponent. At 21, I’d just become US Women’s Chess Champion, a title I’d been dreaming of my whole life.
I m the real-life Queen s Gambit and proof that chess is not a man s game the-sun.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from the-sun.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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An accomplished GM
Boris Gulko is a grandmaster, author and certified FIDE Senior Trainer who, at 30 years of age, won the USSR Championship in 1977 ahead of three world champions. He lost seven years of what could have been his best years of chess for being a “refusenik” before emigrating with his family to the United States, where Boris twice won the U.S. Championship, in 1994 and 1999. He played in the candidates in 1995 and 2000 and qualified to play at the 2004 World Chess Championship in Libya, but withdrew because of antisemitic remarks made by the organizer.
Boris has an impressive three win, one loss, and four draw record against Garry Kasparov. His result in Niksic 1978, where he and Jan Timman shared first 1½ points ahead of a very strong field put him in the spotlight.
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Press release
The great Boris Gelfand will go head to head with three strong grandmasters at the 34th edition of the
Magistral de Ajedrez Ciudad de León, the oldest tournament in Spain. Gelfand will face elite grandmaster Leinier Domínguez, Russian prodigy Andrey Esipenko and Spain’s vice-champion Jaime Santos.
The organizers intend for the tournament to be played over-the-board on 8-12 July, as long as sanitary conditions allow it. As the date approaches, the organizers will work in parallel to have everything ready to convert it completely into an online tournament, if necessary a modality that gave the 2020 edition massive following all over the world.
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