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Chess Queens

Author: Jennifer Shahade

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 2022-03-03

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1399701401

'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

The Greatest Chess Queens

Author: Sylvia Lovina Chidi

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1291909435

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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.

The Queen's Gambit

Author: Walter Tevis

Publisher: Rosetta Books

Published: 2014-09-29

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 079534306X

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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

Chess Queens

Author: Jennifer Shahade

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 2022-03-03

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1399701401

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107 Great Chess Battles, 1939-1945

Author: Alexander Alekhine

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780486271040

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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.

The Greatest Chess Queens

Author: L. S. Chidi

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2013-06-07

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9781490381107

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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.

The Queen of Katwe

Author: Tim Crothers

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-10-09

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1451659210

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Now a major motion picture starring Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo, directed by Mira Nair. The “astonishing” (The New York Times Book Review) and “inspirational” (Shelf Awareness) true story of Phiona Mutesi—a teenage chess prodigy from the slums of Uganda. One day in 2005 while searching for food, nine-year-old Ugandan Phiona Mutesi followed her brother to a dusty veranda where she met Robert Katende. Katende, a war refugee turned missionary, had an improbable dream: to empower kids in the Katwe slum through chess—a game so foreign there is no word for it in their native language. Laying a chessboard in the dirt, Robert began to teach. At first children came for a free bowl of porridge, but many grew to love the game that—like their daily lives—requires persevering against great obstacles. Of these kids, one girl stood out as an immense talent: Phiona. By the age of eleven Phiona was her country’s junior champion, and at fifteen, the national champion. Now a Woman Candidate Master—the first female titled player in her country’s history—Phiona dreams of becoming a Grandmaster, the most elite level in chess. But to reach that goal, she must grapple with everyday life in one of the world’s most unstable countries. The Queen of Katwe is a “remarkable” (NPR) and “riveting” (New York Post) book that shows how “Phiona’s story transcends the limitations of the chessboard” (Robert Hess, US Grandmaster).

Diary of a Chess Queen

Author: Alexandra Kosteniuk

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780979148279

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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.

Play Like a Girl!

Author: Jennifer Shahade

Publisher:

Published: 2011-02-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781936277032

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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.

Bobby Fischer

Author: Frank Brady

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 0486259250

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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.