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In the game of chess, the strongest piecethe Queenis often referred to as "bitch," and being female has been long considered a major disadvantage. Chess Bitch, 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 Bitch 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 th

Who reads Chess Bitch: Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Sport?

Author

Shahade, Jennifer

Publisher

Siles Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781890085513

Category

work of fiction

Rating

3.97 / 5 (93 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13