Chess Bitch (Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Sport) - Jennifer Shahade
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Chess Bitch, written by the 2004 U.S. Woman’s Champion, is an eye-opening account of how today’s young female players are successfully knocking down the doors to this traditionally male game, infiltrating the male-owned sporting subculture of international chess, and giving the phrase "play like a girl" a whole new meaning. Through interviews with and observation of the young globetrotting women chess players who challenge male domination, Chess Bitch shines a harsh light on the game’s gender bias. Shahade begins by profiling the lives of great women players from history, starting with Vera Menchik, who defeated male professionals with incredible frequency and became the first woman’s World Champion. She then investigates women’s chess in Georgia and China. She interviews the Polgar sisters, who refused to play in separate women's tournaments. She details her own chess adventures—and introduces us to such lesser-known chess personalities as the flamboyant Zambian player Linda Nangwale and the transgendered Texan Angela Alston and the European female chess players who hop from one country to another, playing chess by day and partying long into the night. Shahade paints a colorful world that most chess fans never knew existed. 320 pages (Hardback)

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