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Group: BOOKS. Detail: Shahade, Jennifer. Product Code: 189008509X. Category: PLAYERSC. Publisher: Siles Press. Retail Price: AUD $49.95 (includes GST) Buy or Remove Through interviews with and observation of the young globetrotting women chess players who challenge male domination, Chess Bitch shines a harsh light on the games gender bias. Shahade begins by profiling the lives of great women players from history, starting with Vera Menchik, who defeated male professionals with incredible frequency and became the first womans World Champion in 1927. She then investigates the womens chess dynasties in Georgia and China. She interviews the famous Polgar sisters, who refused to play in separate women's tournaments. She details her own chess adventurestraveling to tournaments from Reykjavik to Istanbul. And Shahade introduces us to such lesserknown chess personalities as the flamboyant Zambian player Linda Nangwale and the transgendered Texan Angela Alston and the European female chess players who hop from one country to another, playing chess by day and partying long into the night. For those who think of chess as two people sitting quietly across a table, Shahade paints a colorful world that most chess fans never knew existed.
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