A Journey To Be The First US Black Woman Chess Master w/ Rochelle Ballantyne
The Chess Experience
Do You Feel Like Chess Helps Ground You?
Dean Obeidallah: My grandma said that it was just a really powerful tool to sort of center. I think whatever I'm having conflict or stressed, overwhelmed, depressed, all the things, I always turn to chess to sort of help recenter and ground me because it's the one thing that I know I can focus on amongst all the other things that are happening. And so for me, Dean, the ruckus of the family, whichI don't think is true because my students are worse, but at the time, as the ruckum of the family,. she thought it was important for me to learn those ideals early.
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