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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/189008509X/102-2255626-6472147?v=glance
I met this chick (the author, Jennifer Shadae) passing thru Washington Square Park in New York City. She's cute (pretty with a very nice rack
) and could probably easier beat most of the chess hustlers who "worked" there.
Just felt like sharing that. This isn't a spam thread, BTW, the title of the thread is the name of the book, it's about the history of Women's Chess.
Editorial Review said:Book Description
In the game of chess, the strongest piecethe Queenis often referred to as "b****," and being female has been long considered a major disadvantage.
Chess B****, written by the 2004 U.S. Womans Chess Champion, is an eye-opening account of how todays young female chess 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 ***** shines a harsh light on the games 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 womans World Champion in 1927. She then investigates the womens chess dynasties in Georgia and China. She interviews the famous Polgar sisters, who refused to play in separate women's tournaments. She details her own chess adventurestraveling to tournaments from Reykjavik to Istanbul. And Shahade 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. For those who think of chess as two people sitting quietly across a table, Shahade paints a colorful world that most chess fans never knew existed.
I met this chick (the author, Jennifer Shadae) passing thru Washington Square Park in New York City. She's cute (pretty with a very nice rack

Just felt like sharing that. This isn't a spam thread, BTW, the title of the thread is the name of the book, it's about the history of Women's Chess.