The Chess Experience

GM Irina Krush: The First & Only American Woman to Earn the GM Title

Nov 29, 2022

01:05:30

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The Internet Chess Club

02:19

Is It a Good Idea to Study Chess?

04:34

GM Chess - What Motivated You to Coach and Help Scholastic Players?

02:34

Introduction

4min

Do You Have a Training Schedule?

5min

Is It a Good Idea to Study Chess?

5min

Did Judith Polgar Serve as a Role Model?

2min

The Internet Chess Club

2min

Is There a Difference Between School and Chess?

4min

Is There a Difference Between Free and Free?

2min

Are You Still Engaged in Chess?

3min

What I'm Interested in Is the Fed's Relationship With the World?

2min

10.

What Was the Most Challenging Aspect of Your IM Career?

4min

11.

You Know, It's Possible Always to Achieve More

4min

12.

I Think It Was a Tournament of Missed Opportunities, Um, You Know?

2min

13.

Is There a Forest Line?

4min

14.

The Key Is Just Surviving, Right?

2min

15.

Do You Plan to Compete in the US Women's?

4min

16.

GM Chess - What Motivated You to Coach and Help Scholastic Players?

3min

17.

GM Chess - What Made You Become a Coach?

3min

18.

Coaching and Commentating in Chess

4min

19.

I've Never Worked With Someone That I Did Not Enjoy

4min

20.

I'd Love to Play a Top Player but Haven't Yet Played

2min

044 Few American women in chess are as inspiring as Irina Krush. That may be obvious from the title of this episode alone. But to listen to Irina tell her story in this interview…

To hear her wisdom, strength, and charisma - you get the full measure of why she’s so inspiring to chess players worldwide.

No surprise, though from the person who's been an unprecedented 8x US Women’s Champion.

AND the only American woman to have earned the GM title.

In this episode, we discuss:

Her feelings on her nail-biting loss in the 2022 US Women’s Championship.
Why she loves doing chess commentating.
Her favorite top player that she has yet to play.
Practical advice for overcoming a difficult tournament.

More From Irina:

GM Chess: Irina’s coaching business for scholastic players

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