Surprising Stories & Insights of a Joyful Chess Commentator w/ WGM Jovanka Houska
The Chess Experience
The Beginning Shapes the Middle
There is this kind of running joke when it comes to the Olympia team that I'm all about that light squared strategy. My parents are both from Uruguay, and they took with them this kind of South American ambitiousness. So there was a lot of pressure that, you know, we had to do well because both my parents were putting so much of themselves into our chess career. And one of the things that I did take with me when,. you know, when I became a teenager and a bit more independent, I did take this attitude that if I'm going to do something, I should be as ambitious as I can.
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