Chess - Celebrities

Only three years or so since first picking up the game of chess, 9-year-old Carissa Yip can already look down at 93 percent of the more than 51,000 players registered with the U.S. Chess Federation.

Jennifer Shahade is a writer, entrepreneur and gamesplayer. She is a two-time American Women’s Chess Champion and the editor of Chess Life Online at uschess.org/clo. Her first book, Chess Bitch: Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Sport intertwined her own story with that of great women chess champions past and present. Shahade also contributed in-depth chess annotations to Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess. Jennifer’s latest book project, Play Like a Girl! Tactics by 9 Queens (see book trailer, Lipstick Checkmate, here) is the first book with combinations that are all executed by female chess champions.