The History of Chess in Los Angeles

I think LA actually has a ton of chess history that's endlessly fascinating and I'm kind of starting to dig through that history a little bit. For me I don't know if you know my background I don't really want to go into except done it on many podcasts but I played 20 years ago. It's been fun for me to see some of the people that were like the up-and-coming people 20 years agolike Tadev, who was 15 or 16 when she became a women's grandmaster. The playing field is essentially even and that's that's just the coolest thing. That made me sad once I found chess and I was like why did I find myself as