GM Irina Krush: The First & Only American Woman to Earn the GM Title
The Chess Experience
Is There a Difference Between School and Chess?
I think there was a pretty critical years actually, your teenage years. And if you do have ambitions to be a chess player, um, you want to make the most of that. So this opportunity to do like half of your classes from home, that lasted from middle school all the way through the end of high school. Yeah. I basically didn't attend 12th grade at all, like an 11th grade. Maybe I had to appear in person for like a couple of classes a week. But it wasn't like I was failing my classes or not completing their requirements to graduate. It's kind of what it sounds like: You could have earned the GM title if you didn't have
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