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Chess Bitch: Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Sport

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by Jennifer Shahade


  Xie Jun, Chess Champion from China: The Life and Games of Xie Jun, London: Gambit Publications Ltd., 1998. Yalom, Marilyn, The Birth of the Chess Queen. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

  Newspapers, Periodicals, Internet, Other

  Associated Press, “Lisa Lane, Chess Player, Quits Tourney Because She’s in Love,” New York Times, January 3, 1962.

  Beech, Hannah, “Making All the Right Moves,” Time Asia, April 1, 2002.

  Benko, Pal, “Match of the Century,” Chess Life and Review, Vol. 34, No. 1, January 1979.

  Braggiotii, Mary, “Queen Among the Knights,” New York Post, September 10, 1945.

  Cantwell, Robert, “Queen of Knights and Pawns,” Sports Illustrated, Vol. 15, No. 6.

  Clarke, P.H, “Vera Menchik: First Queen of Chess,” British Chess Magazine, 1958.

  Duffy, Pat, “Diana Lanni: Chess Champion with a Checkered Past,” Ms, Vol.12, No. 7 (January 1984).

  Eggers, Paul, “Akmilovskaya, Donaldson in Olympiad Shocker,” Inside Chess Vol. 1, No. 25, December 26, 1988.

  Geuzendam, Dirk Jan Ten, “Interview with Judit Polgar,” New In Chess, No. 8, 1989.

  Geuzendam, Dirk Jan Ten, “Lion Queen Reaches New Heights,” New In Chess, No.1, 2004.

  Gilbert, Linda Carol, “Chessplayers: Gender Expectations and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.” Ph.D dissertation, California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles,1989.

  Gresser, Gisela, “Chess Queens in Moscow.” Unpublished article.

  Grimsley, Will, “Scorned Woman Gets Something Off Her Chess,” The New York Sun, May 16, 1963.

  Hilton-Brown, Margaret, “Vera Menchik,” British Chess Magazine, 1944.

  Kingston, Taylor, “From Russia, With Hype,” ChessCafe.com, April 14, 2002.

  Lipsyte, Robert, “Queen of Pawns, Etc.” The New York Times Magazine, June 4, 1961.

  New Yorker, The Talk of the Town, “Chess Candidate,” September 19, 1964.

  Polgar, Susan, “Susan Polgar on Chess,” Monthly column on ChessCafe.com, from 2002-2004.

  Savinov, Misha: Interview with Olga Alexandrova, ChessCafe.com August 2003.

  Slater, Kathyryn, “Women’s Chess,” Chess Life, October, 1966.

  Sloan, Sam, “Assembly Copes with Controversy,” Gulf News, December 1, 1986

  Stevens, Tim, “An American Champion Makes History Inside Cold-War Soviet Russia.” Chess Life, January 2004.

  Stix, Harriet, “A Family Sees Its Road to Riches,” Los Angeles Times, December 18,1980.

  Teasley, Dorothy, “Mona Karff,” Marshall Chess Club News, January 25, 2003.

  Thrupkaew, Noy, “The God of Big Trends,” Bitch, No. 16 (Spring 2002).

  Walsh, Nick Paton, “I Play to Win,” The Guardian, April 15, 2002.

  Weart, Edith: Collection of press clippings compiled at the Cleveland Library.

  Woo, Elaine, “Gisela Gresser: Chess Pioneer Won National Title Nine Times,” The New York Times, December 16, 2000.

  About the Author

  Jennifer Shahade, age 24, is an international chess icon. A chess master and two-time American Women’s Chess Champion (2002, 2004), She has represented the U.S in international competitions in countries all over the world, including Spain, Russia, China, India, and Brazil. In 2002, Shahade received a degree in comparative literature from NYU, where she was an editor for the literary magazine Brio. Her writing has appeared in Chess Life, New In Chess, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. Through the non-profit Chess-In-The Schools, she coaches inner-city youths, including a girls’ class, and the three-time National Junior High Championship team, I.S. 318. Shahade is a member of the artist collective Mano/Damno, a group that aims to blur the boundaries between life and art, and has participated in performance art projects at New York’s psychogeography festival, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and The Viewing Room Art Gallery. Her Webpage is www.jennifershahade.com. She lives in Brooklyn.

 

 

 


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