Vera minchik won the women's world chess championship in 19 27. She famously faced off against marcel duchamp, a famous artist who once photographed himself playing chess - but their game ended in a draw. Minchik and her family were killed by a bomb that fell from an airplane when she was 38 years old. Genifer wants you to know this astonishment among men has been there since the very beginning.
In this episode we sit down with Jennifer Shahade, a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, author, speaker, and professional poker player whose new book, Chess Queens, is the true story of the greatest female players of all time interwoven with her own experiences as a chess champion.
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