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Evening News with Art Sanders
Fresh update on "knight" discussed on Evening News with Art Sanders
"Been bounced from the NCAA men's basketball tournament, as have Indiana and Kentucky, creighton earned an 85 76 win over Baylor as Ryan emhart scored 30 points on 8 of 13 shooting. Kansas state received 27 points in 9 assists from marquee snow when the 75 69 downing of Kentucky. Miami rolled to an 85 69 win over Indiana behind Isaiah Wong's 27 points and 9 boards. Michigan state and UConn also reached the sweet 16 as did Xavier Florida Atlantic and Gonzaga and VA in the west leading nuggets had dropped 5 of 6 before Sundays one O 8 one O two when at Brooklyn. Nikola Jokić notched his 28th triple double of the season. Other NBA winners were the bucks, clippers, heat, pelican spurs, thunder and Lakers. NHL and Jeremy swab and posted his second consecutive shout out as the bruins blasted the sabre 7 zero. The rangers followed Saturday 6 zero win over the penguins with a 7 zero dismantling of the predators. The wild golden knights Devils blues and Canucks also won. I'm Dave ferry, AP sports. Coming up in three minutes, another check on traffic. It's now four 41. You love this? All confessed. It's so dirty. That essential. How so? Try living without it. You have a point. And I'm not the only one. Who loves it. Every one of us. Plumbing. That's what makes us
AP News Radio
Eichel's hat trick leads Golden Knights past Columbus 7-2
"Jack eichel notched his second hat trick of the season and fourth of his career and leading the golden knight's 7 two pounding of the blue jackets. Alex patrol had a career high four assists for Vegas, which moved back atop the Western Conference standings with 92 points and took a two point lead over the kings in the Pacific division. The knights were coming off a 7 two loss to the flames. The jackets lost for the 7th time in 8 games and remained at the bottom of the overall standings with 49 points. I'm Dave ferry.
Bloomberg Daybreak
Fresh update on "knight" discussed on Bloomberg Daybreak
"6 33 on Wall Street time for the Bloomberg sports update brought to you by tri state Audi with John Stan shower. All right, Nathan, the NCAA tournament down to the sweet 16 the Big Ten started with 8 teams and only one remains at Michigan state. There's one left from the ACC that's Miami who last night beat Indiana, the big 12 has two teams left, the SEC has three and so does the big east but not marquette who was the regular season and tournament champion the warriors were upset by Michigan state, the Spartans are now one of four teams headed to the garden for the east regional on Thursday, the Spartans will take on Kansas state, Tennessee, will meet Florida, Atlantic who had their hands full with fairly Dickinson with the knights coming off that stunning upset of Purdue fell short 78 to 70, Yukon beat saint Mary's the huskies are in their first sweet 16 since they won it all in 2014. Gonzaga late last night got by TCU, creighton beat Baylor and next up for creighton is Princeton. That's Friday and Louisville as the 15th seeded tigers look to continue its Cinderella run. Big upset the women's tourney, top seed Stanford lost the old myth. Rick Pitino has reportedly been offered the St. John's coaching job in most expect the 70 year old Hall of Famer to leave iona take over the red storm. He would be back coaching at the garden like he did in the late 1980s with the Knicks at the garden. What a weekend for the rangers
AP News Radio
Florida Atlantic edges Memphis 66-65, 1st March Madness win
"Fairly Dickinson 63 58 win over Purdue is just the second upset of a top seed by a 16th seed in tournament history. The knights held the boilermakers to 35% shooting and got 19 points from Sean Moore. They go make runs and they're a very good team. So we just got to dig in, be greedy 'cause we're small, but we use that to our advantage. Athletic, fast, and we just use all the two advantages and just do what we can do best. After you will play Florida Atlantic next after the owl slip by Memphis, 66 65, Michigan state advances following a 72 62 win over USC and it was marquette 78 Vermont 61. Tom mccabe, Columbus
Evening News with Art Sanders
Fresh update on "knight" discussed on Evening News with Art Sanders
"Seat fairly Dickinson's fairly high hopes two nights after the knights had sent the top seat Purdue packing. The owls take on Tennessee next. Out west Arkansas upset of number one Kansas on Saturday. Leaves things wide open in Las Vegas on Thursday. The razorbacks will meet four seed, Connecticut, to be followed by two CDC against three sea Gonzaga. In the south region, creighton bounced three seed Baylor, Ryan neme, scored a career high 30. Our goal of this year was definitely to get back to a game like this and we're super happy to pull out the win. The Blue Jays had the Louisville on Friday to take on Cinderella, Princeton, the 15 seed reaching the regional centers for the first time since 1967. The first game will feature number one Alabama and San Diego state. The Midwest was nearly chalk with Saturday winners Houston in Texas, joined Sunday by three seed Xavier and 5 seed Miami. Those four convening in Kansas City on Friday, starting with the canes and the number one cougars. At the world baseball classic in Miami Team USA romped over Cuba in the first semifinal, Dre Turner hit two taters and drove in for a night after his Grand Slam saved the Americans bacon. They'll face the winner of tonight's Japan, Mexico semifinal for the title on Tuesday. NBA, the bucks rally past the raptors, Milwaukee, one of three teams that has clinched a playoff birth, along with Boston and Denver. The nuggets nipped the nets, Nikola Jokić with his 28th triple double. NHL shout outs for the first place. Bruins, along with the rangers and blues. That's Monday sports. Robert workman on sports, it's 7 till. You might say these
The Charlie Kirk Show
Citizen Kane and Charlie Dare to Talk Sports
"Welcome back, everybody. We have one of my favorite guests. He runs an impressive website. I visit it multiple times a day, citizens free press. We have Citizen Kane on the line. Mister Cain, welcome to the program first and most important question. Do you have Indiana winning at all? And if yes, what is wrong with you? Well, hey, your Evanston boys northwestern. I know. That's right, dude. How great was that? And also prince than the other day, which I hate to cheer for woke schools, but you are a big guy you guy, though, aren't you? Yeah, I grew up. Starting at age four, we had a 6th row seats behind the bench. When we moved to Bloomington. Wow. In the early 70s, bob knight had just taken the job at IU after having come from West Point. And he accumulated this group of four or 5 doctors who were all about night's age. And a weird little side story. So these are doctor surgeons, radiologists, anesthesiologists with full practice with full practices and night would demand that they attend the IU basketball practice every day. I kid you not. For two and a half hours. And yeah, anyway. So yeah, you know, I'm a believer in the hoosiers. All schools are woke, so I don't hold that against Princeton. And that was, that was a heck of a game yesterday, for instance. There was some awesome games. So we're going to get a lot of hate mail because our audience doesn't like it when we talk sports
The Breakdown
The Banking System Broke; Will That Force a Fed Pivot?
"All right guys, it continues to be interesting times and today was supposed to be the big financial event of the week with the CPI report. So let's pick up the story from where we left off yesterday and see if the CPI report actually had as much significance as it might once have seemed. So here's where we were. The falling dominoes were silvergate closing down on Wednesday, Silicon Valley bank being put into receivership on Friday, and over the weekend, the squawking chaos is the tech industry viewed itself facing moral peril. All of this led to the fed's coming in on Sunday Night as the white knight, saying, hey, we're invoking systemic risk. Everyone's deposits are safe, management is not protected and taxpayers don't have to foot the bill. Oh, and by the way, we shut down signature bank as well. Yeah, the crypto won. No, don't ask us to explain why. And into all of that on Monday morning, market started in turmoil. First republic began the day 70 plus percent down in small and regional banks everywhere had their trading halted for volatility. However, then, at least in the non banking sectors, markets started to recover and even move into the green. Many commentators were incredulous. Dimitri kofinis from the inimitable hidden forces wrote, we got a global pandemic that killed millions of people, the start of a potential World War that could kill millions more, the steepest interest rate cycle in 40 years and now the second largest bank failure in U.S. history and markets are still like nah, we going up. And it wasn't just stocks. Crypto absolutely roared yesterday led by Bitcoin, which was up nearly 20% on the day. And by the way, has continued to increase today as well, hitting 26,000 at the time of this recording. So what the heck you may ask is going on. Well, let's talk first about the crypto side. Yesterday I did a YouTube video exploring three possible explanations for why Bitcoin was going up. The first one is the one I'd most like to be true. And that is that this moment is piercing the veil of people's perceptions of the solidity of the banking system and showing them that they are a part of something that is more complex and risky than they might have been led to believe. Even if one isn't clamoring for the destruction of the fed and the end of Fiat money, it certainly strikes us that it might be better if a more informed electorate better understood the part they play and more specifically the role their money plays in the system we have
Dennis Prager Podcasts
The Mental Health of Liberal Girls
"There is a piece in the free press and it is written by John haidt, whom I believe is same as Jonathan haidt. But no, it actually might be a son. I don't know it's an interesting question because he refers to Jonathan Knight. Who is highly regarded one of the few writers in the United States who's highly regarded by both the right and the left. It's almost incredible. I'm happy for him. I'm happy period that that exists. And he has a piece or at least John height has the peace. Why the mental health of liberal girls sank first and fastest? We are a decade into the largest epidemic of adolescent mental illness ever recorded. It's time we started treating social media like automobiles and firearms. They blame it on the social media. But if it's on the social media, why do girls why are they more mentally ill the farther left you go? So of course there is an answer and that is something I have raised so many years. With you, and that is to do the disturbed gravitate to the left or it is the left make you disturbed and likewise morally do the morally confused and being gentle. Gravitate to the left or does the left make you morally confused? And the answer is all four.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Biden DNI Pick Avril Haines Raises Eyebrows
"Doing some research on this Avril Haines person. Who apparently is the one that had the back and forth with Tom cotton. And The Guardian, The Guardian, averill Haines is unusual backstory makes her an unlikely chief for U.S. intelligence. Oh, really? And so then somebody sends this to me. The former plane enthusiast lawyer at judo belt owned a cafe that staged erotica nights and worked for president Obama, what you're trying to say the erotica knights ended up working for Obama. I think this is grammatically a little bit too close. So I don't know what the hell it erotica night is. I Googled it. And it said you need to turn your safe search off in order to do that. I'm not doing that. I don't even know what it is. And so then apparently in the article it explains it that this woman who's now running DNI bought brothels, though she bought she opened a cafe in a formal brothel and then returned and then returned it to a brothel. She's running the head of the DNI. She says, quote, erotica has become more prevalent because people are trying to have sex without having sex. Others are trying to find new fantasies to make their monogamous relationships more satisfying with the erotic offers is spontaneity twists and turns and it affects everybody. This woman is a freak. She should not be in our government. So when I say the Biden administration has a team of freaks I mean it is really strange.
AP News Radio
Quick posts first shutout with Knights, beats Hurricanes 4-0
"Jonathan quick notched his first golden knight shut out by stopping 34 shots in a four zero victory over the hurricanes. Quick as three and O since joining Vegas from Columbus at the trade deadline. It was his second shutout of the season and 58th of his career. Jonathan Marshall opened the scoring with his 20th goal, four O three into the game. Rally Smith Paul cotter and Bret howden also tallied in the night's 5th win in 6 games. Frederick Anderson made 20 saves for the canes, who had won four in a row. Carolina hadn't been shut out since late November. I'm Dave fairy.
AP News Radio
Martinez scores in OT, Golden Knights edge Lightning 4-3
"The Vegas golden knights picked up two precious points in what turned out to be a wild four three overtime win against the Tampa Bay lightning. Newly acquired Jonathan quick stopped 34 shots to earn the win. That time of the year where every point is huge and teams are fighting for it. So it's a great team over there and you know we battled hard for those two points. Keegan kolesar put Vegas on the board 27 seconds into the game. Four minutes later, brayden point tied the game. He would later tie the game again to force overtime. William Carlson scored short handed for Vegas and Alec Martinez scored the game winner with less than two minutes left in overtime. Walter marsicano Tampa
AP News Radio
Barbashev scores 2, Golden Knights beat Canadiens 4-3
"The golden knights earned a four three win over the Canadians as I've been Barbara chef scored his first two goals for Vegas. Barbershop scored once while the knights were taking a three zero lead, then added the eventual game winner. Jonathan quick stopped 25 shots of winning his golden age debut. I felt good, you know, it's a fun building to play in front of, and these fans are great. We've known that, you know, since day one, since his team came in for 5 6 years ago, so yeah, definitely a warm reception. I enjoyed that. Quick secured the win after allowing two goals in a 35 second span of the third period. The wind puts Vegas on top of the Pacific division. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
Theodore scores in SO, Golden Knights beat Devils 4-3
"Theodore furnished the lone shootout goal is the golden knights down the devil's four three. Theodore beat Akira Schmidt in the fourth round, giving Vegas its second straight win and 8th at 11 games. Jonathan Marshall scored twice and assisted on Jack eichel's go ahead goal three 47 into the third period. Miles wood tied it with 7 O 7 left in regulation. New Jersey entered a three game winning streak despite pumping 49 shots on Eden hill. Jesper Bratton Dawson Mercer also scored for the Devils who travel the metropolitan division by two points. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
Late goal gives Golden Knights 3-2 win over Hurricanes
"It was Riley Smith who netted the game winning goal with just three 42 to play in the contest, Smith later called it one of the most important wins of the season. We let a few game slip out of our reach with the last probably three weeks and close points can come back and haunt you at the end of the year. So it meant a lot to be able to win this one and get two points. Vegas got a pair of goals from Jack eichel and Aiden hill was the winner between the pipes, making 24 saves. The Carolina gold scorers were Martin H's and Jordan stall. I am Mark Myers
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Is Going on in El Salvador?
"Going on in El Salvador El Salvador's out of country we talk about a lot, unfortunately, the only reason we usually talk about El Salvador is the criminals that are coming from El Salvador that are coming into our country, but El Salvador is deciding to take things into their own hands. El Salvador borders the north Pacific Ocean. It is obviously in Central America, borders Honduras and Guatemala. And it's a small country, all things being equal, but it's also a very violent country. In fact, unfortunately, El Salvador, most Americans, if they were to think of El Salvador, they would think of El Salvador as being a violent, a viciously violent gang infested country. But I think this is worthy of noting of how El Salvador has decided to take things into their own hands and be leaders. So the new president of El Salvador, in fact, I don't know if he's new. I just think he's good. I don't know how long he's been in office. We'll find out in a second. President bukele has decided to embark on an ambitious new project. As soon as I saw this news story, I thought of a very specific Hollywood reference, of course I thought of Harvey dent in The Dark Knight where you just arrest like 2000 gangbangers at once. He's been president since 2019. So apparently he's been working on this for some time. Let's go to cut 60 Jesse watters who reports on El Salvador's new president moving gang members to do to a new mass mega prison. And is the country safer? Not only is it safer, but crime in El Salvador has dropped so dramatically there has not been a murder in the whole country in a week. What a concept
AP News Radio
Rantanen scores twice, Avalanche cool off Golden Knights 3-0
"The avalanche made it 6 wins in a row by downing Vegas three zero mikko ranton and scored twice and says he knows why this win streak is alive and well. I think the defensive habits we have been we've been really really good at those better than we were before, you know and even if we're not playing that great overall we're just still defending hard and everybody's coming to our D zone as hard as they can. Alexander georgi have turned aside all 31 shots he saw. It's not like Colorado feasted on a pushover prior to this loss, Vegas had racked up at least a point in its previous 9 games. Bruce Morton Denver
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Chris Kohls and Seb Talk About the Original "Mad Max" Movie
"Talk about Mad Max and at least it's influence. If we say it's an amateurish film made by people who never made a movie before, we've got to recognize one thing and that's the flipping impact this movie had, because after this movie came out, like Blade Runner that we've already reviewed here on making movies great again, it created its own genre, didn't it, Chris? Oh yeah, well, not just this, but the second film in the third film, there was a lot of post apocalyptic films that came out after this. The cars in particular, there had been car chase films before this. There had been car centric films, right? What's funny is I was thinking, okay, they call the villain at the beginning of the film calls himself knight rider. Yes. And then Mel Gibson's car kind of looks like the eventual, right? The intercept, yeah, the black on black. Right. Yeah, a little bit, a little bit. And I'm like, hi, I wonder if this is inspiration for the show night, right? I was thinking the same thing and how did they not have a copyright issue or somebody say, hey, somebody's used that name before again in a movie. Well, I think the knight writer from the show was K, K and I yes. So how do you spell night? It doesn't matter. I'm with a knight as in darkness with an end. I just not done off the peloton. I can't think after I get this. Is that what happens? Is that why peloton should be banned? Honestly, people say, oh, if you exercise, you get like enlivens your it makes me dumb. Like I can't think afterwards. I don't care. Stop exercising. That is the conclusion. Stop exercising. Buy a motorbike and have fun on a motorbike instead. Actually, you know, after watching this film, I did feel a little bit less intelligent as well, so that might be part of it. So why the hell did you force me to choose between this and Ghostbusters two? I need to know why you did this to me. Well, I'll tell you why, because I've always wanted to watch this film. There's a few films I've always wanted to watch because, you know, I've always liked road warrior. I've always thought that the concept of this genre, this post apocalyptic genre is a good idea. I only assumed that the original Mad Max was as good as the hang on. You hadn't seen this at all. Never saw it. I've never seen it. Wow. Okay, all right. That's good. All right. That's why I wanted to see it. I wanted to say it was an opportunity for me to see it. If you came to this cold and I don't think I'd ever paid attention to it and sat down in one go and ever watched it. Maybe seen bits of it on TV or whatever. The first 20 minutes, especially when the night rider flies through the caravan. It's like a comedy.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Lord Conrad Black Talks Conservatives' Views of Russia
"To be an inability of some very influential voices on the right to understand why Russia's you use the phrase snuffing out Ukrainian independence is a bad thing. Is this just a neo Buchanan knight neo isolationism that's just knee jerk or do you see something darker in this? Because for me, the idea that anyone who calls themselves any kind of conservative doesn't understand why Russia invading other countries is a bad thing, kind of boggles the mind. I find that astounding. And I don't know what the basis of it is just referred earlier in general. I'm not going to name any names here. But Friends of mine who went in most respects I agree with politically and have for years when we just part company in this issue. And just taking those cases as illustrative. I think part of the reason is they're fed up with the extravagance and stupidity of The Pentagon for all the stupefying amounts of money president Trump conferred on The Pentagon to bring American defense right up to scratch. They didn't address vulnerabilities in Taiwan. We don't have an adequate defense system for the Nimitz class carriers, which are gigantic ships. And we are behind the Russians in Chinese and hypersonic missiles. And when confronted with this, they'd be more ironic in my opinion. It should have been court martialed years ago, chief of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general milley, said it's a Sputnik moment.
Your Daily Prayer
A Prayer to Be Online With God
"Online communication seems to be the key enabler for us to work rest and play. I mean, the chances that you're even listening to this devotional online. The other night I was thinking about this subject while staring up at The Dark Knight sky. I portrayed since a poetry by saying there were stars twinkling, because they weren't, at least not to my naked eye. But I felt somber looking at that in different deepness of hidden space. I knew that all around me, the word was communicating. And yet God was still there. Almost silent. I say almost because Jesus Christ is the king of communicators. To such an extent that he is called the word. We say so much in our text messages, emails, and apps. But it's also meaningless, if not embedded in the word. All that needs to be said is fulfilled in him. So, let's pray to be online with God. To receive the word from the word, Carmel restless, Internet tuned minds and embraced the true life and light, which is simply him. Let's pray. Father God of the heavenly lights. I pray to you this day in the name of the word Jesus Christ. He loved me enough to die for me. I am privileged to pray by the leading of your gift, the Heidi spirit. I want to thank you for your patience with me. You see me when I'm distracted on my phone, tablet or PC, and you still wait for me. During my days or make it so pulled towards the idolatry of consumerism and self worship, you forgive me. When I am tempted to think that man is capable of anything, as I'm awed by the gadgets and technological advances, he reminds me that you alone are the tree doorway to creativity. When I believe the lie that the online world is proper living, you bring me back to reality. I'm perplexed my dear lord that you still want my company. I love you ABBA, now I'm so glad of your love for me, and for my family. Give me wisdom to obey your will. Finally, obedience with a delay is not obedience. I ask for a gift of maturity tea as I use technology in my daily life. Directly to use these tools for your glory. Remind me to use my time not waste it. Help me to bear fruit as I communicate with others because, at all times, I represent you.
AP News Radio
Golden Knights score 5 goals in 3rd period, beat Ducks 7-2
"The golden knights put together a 5 goal third period in a 7 two thumping of the ducks. William carrier, Michael O'Malley, Jack eichel, Phil kessel, and Shea Theodore each had a goal on an assist while Riley Smith and William Carlson, each set up two scores. It was a one goal game until Theodore kessel and eichel scored in a 5 13 span. The knights of outscored their opponents 17 four during a three game winning streak. Isaac lundstrom had a goal and an assist for the ducks who have dropped two straight since a four zero one one stretch. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
Eichel leads Vegas in 4-goal 2nd period to beat Wild 5-1
"Jack eichel had a goal and an assist while the golden knights scored four times in the second period of a 5 one downing of the wild. Paul caught a rally Smith and eichel scored in a two 26 ban, putting the nights up by four. Nicholas why, an Alex Petra also tallied to back Logan Thompson, who turned back 23 shots before leaving with a left leg injury in the third period. Career caprice scored a power play goal and former night Mark Andre fleury turned back 18 of 23 shots before being pulled after two periods. I'm Dave ferry.
Ladies Knight Chess
"knight" Discussed on Ladies Knight Chess
"What I would bring out of that. Yeah, brilliantly said, I mean, and for the parents and the coaches to kind of steer that in the right direction. Obviously, we're not going to stop people from comparing themselves to each other entirely, but you can certainly push the envelope and that in that direction. By the way, there's two famous twins, Alyssa Mari, and mirjana marich, they were both WGN's. And of course, there's a tremendous tradition, particularly in women's jazz, by the way. This is even more pronounced in women's jazz that siblings and sisters do very well like the polgar sisters, the Maurice twins, and now the contemporary sisters, the Musée chuck sisters. Even Alexander Costa knew, her younger sister was very good at chass. She didn't become professional like Alex, but the examples are very prominent and my own brother, of course, plays chess. Why do you think this is even more of a trend when it comes to girls and women? Probably cost effective. I would say one of those things. I have noticed when even teaching in my own schools that we have a lot of siblings that play and they might be different ages. They might be maybe one year apart or sometimes even twins. And I think when they see their sibling and enjoying something, they're kind of curious and they're like, maybe I might like that too, or maybe I should try that out. And then it does end up turning into, again, as you said, we can't stop at comparing ourselves to one another. It does become a little thing of, hey, can I beat my brother? Can I beat my sister or can I get to similar strengths or even higher? And so I think that might be just a curiosity wanting to know if you can be better than the other person or if you can be just as good and just that kind of level of competition and adding that confidence to yourself. So I would say that I've noticed mainly most siblings enter it because they see their siblings do it. I know what growing up for me I watched my brother play piano and all of a sudden I was like, well, I want to play. And so that was just like if he's enjoying it for all these years, maybe I can too. So I would say probably is no different. If you see your sibling enjoying it and they're constantly going, you want to be a part of that too. You may even want to be the person that plays them when they get when they get home. I hear kids all the time saying, oh, my dad beats me and all my mom beats me. But sometimes it's nice to have someone who hasn't learned chess for years and you have someone who's only learned trust for maybe a year or two. And then you can have a little opponent at home as well. By the way, I have three 18 with her in middle school, I'm a mother, and you went there when the acclaimed documentary, Brooklyn castle was being filmed. Can you tell us a little bit about that where you featured in the film and what was it like having cameras in the school when you were playing chess? It was very cool experience. The funny part was the first day I got there, the way the school is set up is they go through numbers of 6 being 6th grade, so 6 O one to maybe 6, 18, and all of the even numbers. So it might be like, for instance, I was in the class 6 O 6. So even till this day, I think it's probably the same way. The class 6 O 6 was always named as the chess class. They put all the chess players in there. I did take a test so they could see academically where I would stand. But the class 6 O 6 was the class I was in. And I think that also majority helped because whenever we would go to nationals or any tournaments, it wouldn't really affect the teachers like they weren't randomly pulling out 5 kids from one class 5 kids from the other class. They just pull out 6 O 6 and send them to nationals and then the teachers kind of maybe get a break for a few days. That was known as the chess class. My sister, of course, I don't know if there was a rule. There might have been a rule at the time where they said twins couldn't be in the same class. So she ended up being in a different class than me, but if it was possible, I think they would have put her in 6 O 6 as well. The first day that I got highest or 18, I was just sitting in class and getting ready to be introduced to who my homeroom teacher was. And all of a sudden, the door opens and I see this big camera, like a touch to Katie, and she just panning the room. And that's kind of that's actually one of the scenes that you'll see when you watch Brooklyn castle is there's and I'm actually in there as well. But there's just a scene of just her panning this 6 O 6 chess class just to see like these bright new faces that are starting. It was also the class that justice Williams was in as well. I was with him for three years and the same exact class for every single subject. But that was just one of the biggest things that I knew. And so once I saw that camera, I was like, wow, this documentary is probably going to be big. And I would love to be a part of it. I definitely did some interviews throughout the two years when they were finishing up. But it was definitely cool to do a bunch of double takes of them wanting us to walk from the corner of the school walking in and just constantly doing that back and forth till they got their good shot. I also did an interview when pogo F Coro, he was running for president for school president and they want to just kind of like how I felt about pobo and what type of person he was and those are kind of really nice to be a part of. Obama, right? Yeah. I remember that from the movie. What a tremendous talk. Now, I have to ask, was it hard because this happens to me all the time? Like, I'm used to it. I'm a veteran of this stuff. Just the other day I was interviewed by NPR, and they like for like an hour and they just cut it all. And I was interviewed by some other documentary, a couple of years ago, same thing happened. It happens, right? But for a child, was that difficult to be interviewed, extensively, and then not make the final cut? No. Because I think at the end of the day, I mean, I had, I didn't want to have any expectations. We talk about in the movie you see probably 30 kids that go to nationals are a part of this. I mean, they mainly focused on, I think, like 5, but I wanted to not have any expectations. My biggest thing that I focused on was just mainly being good at chess. The regimen I would say at how much chess I studied during those three years was a lot. And I remember just being pulled out of after school to do that interview. And I was like, well, I need to get back to my practice game now. So I'll see you later, but I hope that you liked what I said. I hope that it helps. But at the end of the day, I think when I saw the documentary for the first time, it was, believe it was in Minnesota. We were at nationals and they took us to this off site where they were actually showing the film. And once I saw it and I didn't see it in there, I was a little sad but at the end of the day I was like, it's not about me. There's a bigger picture to the story. Whether my 5 seconds of fame doesn't get in there, like the point of it was to list a talk about the chess team. And I was like that one spa small part of it. The big thing I definitely got out of it was The New York Times actually came to the school after three 18 had won their big triumph. It was like the first middle school to win the high school nationals and The New York Times actually came to the school and I actually had no idea they were coming and my sister and I just so happened to be dressing the exact same like converse. We had blue skinny jeans. We had these Minnesota twin like shirts on and they took a picture of that, but I was actually much more excited when they actually put me in The New York Times than
Ladies Knight Chess
"knight" Discussed on Ladies Knight Chess
"Absolutely fantastic, so. Yeah, there are some hits which are we kind of taped. So now you're coming to the United States to show and premier the film, which is very exciting. So keep your eyes on the show notes because I will put some links to tattoos schedule and I'll update it because I know some of them are still up in the air. You're going to Harvard to show the film and you're going to be stopping in New York City. So listeners who are from those places keep your eyes open for some potential events. Are you now a lifelong, more interested in chess? Have you been kind of like following playing a little bit more? Yes, I like to follow the place and not playing because I'm not that strong and I don't have this kind of concentration ability, but I like to follow good place. It's interesting place because I am always thinking what the next player will do, what kind of move. And it is never like that. And this fantastic. You know, when you as a chest over watch the professionals, it's very nice. I like to watch. Once you get enough passion for the game and enough reference points, it's definitely a passion that you can keep for life. As a filmmaker, I understand there were some challenges in this movie. I saw an interview with you where you said that there were some personality conflicts in the Quartet of four legendary liars. Tell me more about that and how did you overcome it to make a film where it wasn't that at all obvious to the viewer? No, because when it's about chest, these people are professionals, just professionals, what they, how they interact in private life because they have different political opinions and this is a conflict moment. This is something else. But when it's about a love and passion, the really solidarity, not just with me, also with each other. And the last one of the last scenes in the train, it was really this place where there were two of them, this were 9 Alexandria cock to each other again. After a conflict which has had political reasons. You mean politics, not chess politics. No, it's not just politics. Just the other politic normal chess. I mean, they were this women were always competitors for the normal situation for them to have like, you know, to have this tensions, but they are so such a great women. They are, they are really, really, really professional, what they do if they do, they say, to do this, then they do it. I mean, they are great. I really love to work with them. And I have a great material still, which is not used in the films. Time limitations. I'm limitation. Well, I'm glad that you were able to make the film. It seems like it was not an easy gap for some of the players in particular known I got friends really. It was a real treat to see this because a lot of them just aren't interviewed that often in English. So I learned so much about these players. You know, from writing in my first book to the chess queens, I noticed that it was difficult to get information about some of these players personal lives and about their true nature and the direct quote. So big thank you for all the effort you put to make such a great film and I hope people who listen to this will take the time to watch it and it's got English subtitles. So yeah, you can find those on all the places we mentioned earlier, Amazon Prime, Google Play, Apple, do you have a preference for where people watch it? Who are Spanish speaking, should the watch watch on Vimeo on demand? Because it has Spanish subtitles, but on others platforms, there is in English. You can choose yourself, which may be cheaper or something, I don't know. You choose after your gadgets, fantastic, guess watch the film and open up some games by Nona Maya and nana while you're watching or after you're watching. So that you can experience the full inspiration of glory to the queen. Thank you so much tatia. I'm sure it's latte for joining me on ladies night and we really look forward to welcoming you on your trip to the United States as well. Very exciting, getting the word, a glory to the queen, out to more people, spread it as we love to see the accomplishments of the great women of chess to be spread far and wide. If you like what we're doing at USGS to encourage women and girls to explore stem fields, accentuate competence and approach an even ratio with a focus on intersectionality, your donation to our U.S. chess women programs is always appreciated. And tax deductible. The U.S. test suite of podcasts, including ladies night, are produced and edited by Jason Andre at 7 season films, photography and media. Please visit 7 season films dot com to find out how to start your own podcast. Don't forget to listen and subscribe to all U.S. test platforms from one movie at a time, cover stories, and
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"Asked the parents to send her to the capital to learn and play more. Yes. And many, many, many, many, many, many kind of parts, really played together. It's like a German state guide. You know, this trainer, I think he understood that there were not so many female chess players, strong just players. He saw this kind of this talent in Nona, also known as sister of four brothers who were also playing chess, you know, she was playing with them. So this kind of this kind of micro costs must, yeah. And many parts together. Yeah, she was on the right place in the right moment. I would say, with her and she's a sports woman. She's really a sports she loves to play. My sense in my film, she wants to win all the games which already lost. It's going to very competitive. There's a lot of stories about known and how she just wants to win so badly. And sometimes, of course, that means that if you win against her, it's not going to be a very happy experience for her. But one thing that I really liked in your film is that you talk a lot to this amazing player who unfortunately has died since the film released. She was a wonderful character in your film and she was she was from the former Yugoslavia and that when she was playing in her most active years, she was playing under the yugoslavian flag and she was spoke very eloquently about the players she had so many insights and one in particular was about Nona gap rendition really about how generous Nona was to the yugoslavian players during times of strife. Which was one who kind of made this woman to agree to work with me because she agreed to work with me. And she's very eloquent as you said. And she is also very straight, very clear. And what she did first time when I wanted to kind of impress my Chicago to work with me, she made me with me Skype call from Belgrade to talk to Nona and it was a big surprise for Nona. And suddenly she appeared very beautiful with this kind of fantastic head sitting in the heart of Belgrade and she told Nona she should make this film with me. And then also and what is very important. She managed in my film also to kind of really name what this women achieved in reality, like she said about Nona that her achievements are like landing on Mars or Jupiter and she told about Maya that she's like a Mozart female Mozart. I mean, she can really put you know she can describe and she can make comparisons so you understand in cultural history or in history of humanity. What kind of maybe role, these women played, okay, this is in chess world, but still, I mean chess world is quite big and very serious and very important and very beautiful and I have to say, since I'm working, was working on this film, chess players, quite a crazy special people, which I really like because in one moment, they can drift somewhere. I don't know. You know, they forget everything and this is what I really like about them. There is this passion which makes them a little bit crazy, but fun and funny and I like to work with them. I'm so sad that lazarevic died because after watching the movie, you just want to hang out with her so badly and get a coffee. She's just so, so interesting to talk to. Well, thank God goodness. You got so many hours of her on film. She did die at the age of 86. And in Serbia and you must have interviewed her just like a year or two earlier. It just kind of shows the importance of history and interviewing people who have had such important experiences in lives because otherwise a lot of these memories might fade away. Yes, milunka was like a she called herself. She raised her of the chess history. Please like from 1001 nights, you know? And she could go on with a story. I have so many stories, not only just about my protagonists, but also about others, but Bobby Fischer and about Michelle and trespass and okay, she did not know how that's okay. She was okay with it. She was great last call we did the voice in Belgrade on phone and she told me you know chess is such a, I mean, you can't watch chess players for a long, it is such a boring to watch, you know? And do you need a good storyteller? She told me on the phone, a good storyteller. Because she's my storyteller. She did a great job. And the incident I was talking about and of course you should all watch the film. Available on Amazon Prime, Google Play, Apple TV, I was mentioning the one where her town was in war, right? And she and she mentioned that Nona offered her and other chess players from her city to come stay in Tbilisi that she would arrange some conditions for them and she said, this is something that people don't know about Nona quite how generous she was with her friends. She was very, she said that this was only person who made this offer to women at least and she knew at the time, yes, it's so hard when the war is going on. And nobody offers you shelter. This is very nice. This was very personal, but definitely wanted to say and that it came also. You know, that hits differently since, of course, you filmed this before the war in Ukraine. And of course, the chess community has been very generous and fundraising for Ukraine, but still it's something that you can't help but think about and how difficult it is for our chess Friends, is there are so many great female chess players from Ukraine. I mean, actually has kind of like a parallel story there to Georgia, I'd say. I mean, it's fair to say that the war makes, I don't know you in a way you can offer something, but in the same time one feels very helpless in doing very little things, you know? I think solidarity and support is even if it's very tiny, even if it's one word, it's enough for the life to think about and don't forget. Your film came out in 2020. So actually the same year of The Queen's Gambit, which of course was a international phenomenon kind of coinciding with the online test film. What were your thoughts on the series? And at what point did you see it? You were finished with the film, of course, when you saw it. That my film was premiered one month before the queens camp it was on air. I have to say we both were very good in research because there are some details which are really the one to one like
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"One possible tip. Really depends on the exact type of issues she's having with closing. Another point though is time management and endgame practice, those are things that could definitely help. And when you look at games by top players, pay extra attention to moments where they trade one type of an advantage for another. But my suspicion is that everyone has this problem because chess is hard and unless you're one of the very best players in the world, most games, zigzag a bit. And the key is to stay present and to always look for the best move and not to think about the past. Not to think, wow, it was like really crushing a few moves ago, and now I'm only crushing a little bit. Well, that's not that bad. In fact, I would say that's just chess. And if you think about how you feel, think about how your opponent feels. Well, you know, you used to be totally winning and now you're only a little bit winning. From their point of view, yeah, they're still suffering all game. So the chances of them making a mistake if you keep that positive attitude could be higher. Anyway, I love that question because I also feel like it resonates with so many justifiers. How difficult it is to convert when you're playing with a stubborn upon it. And what does that tell you? Be that stubborn upon it. Be that Stanford opponent when you're on the other side of the tough position in the momentum. So thank you everyone for your fantastic questions. I really appreciate them. And I appreciate all of our listeners and our supporters of U.S. jazz U.S. women and our family of podcasts. So if you haven't already, be sure to smash this subscribe on ladies night and the entire suite of pods here at U.S. tests. I am Jennifer shahadi, signing off for this month's ladies night, see you next time. If you like what we're doing at USGS to encourage women and girls to explore stem fields, accentuate competence and approach an even ratio with a focus on intersectionality, your donation to our U.S. chess women programs is always appreciated. And tax deductible. The U.S. test suite of podcasts, including ladies night, are produced and edited by Jason Andre at 7 season films, photography and media. Please visit 7 season films dot com to find out how to start your own podcast.
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"Right? So those are things I would highly recommend. I'm on Twitter and I do follow chess punks. I know a lot of friends have found each other for that community. So that's one possibility, but just try to be conscious that not only is it going to make your chest life more fun, but it's also going to make your chest better to find the right Friends. I also got a question that I get quite frequently, which is kind of perfect for me since I'm the mom of a 5 and a half year old. What is the best book to get kids age three to 6 interested in regularly learning jazz? Best book or app app as well. Well, I love storytime chess, which is a combination chess book with chess pieces that have little outfits on them. Super cute. My son loved it, especially when he was four. It's a really good if you want to get your kids interested at an extremely young age. Two, three, four. Because the story tells you how the pieces move and these fairytales and it's very sticky with children and kind of just like that other pathway to get them interested in jazz. From the point of view of apps, there's so many good ones. Of course, some parents don't want their young children using iPads or phones, but if you do, there's a lot of good options. There's chess kids, my son was watching those videos for quite a long time, and I was hearing my old friend, fun faster bikes, boy, every morning with my coffee. Then there's also Magnus kingdom. My son love that app. It's not the more popular Magnus app that you might have thought of, like, play Magnus, where you playing a different ages, it's the one where your moving around, this quest space, and you are moving your avatar like the different chess pieces. So you have to find your way to Magnus's castle, but in order to do so, you need to acquire all these keys and unlock all these doors and the only way you can do that is if you know a 100% how the chess pieces move. And then there's also mini chess games along the way. Fabian loved it. It really helped us get through the pandemic. And I had to tell you, fabi's mom loved it at first too. That first time around, I just thought it was really elegantly designed. I thought it was a really cool game. Then maybe times three, four, 5, 6, 7, and 8, and 9. Around the quest. It was a little bit more expected. I feel like I've describing a Disney movie, but yes, I highly recommend that for like 5 year olds four year olds who are interested in Jess. We also use chess mech for a little while. That's another app that my son like actually we recently ran in to none other than Magnus Carlsen in Las Vegas, where he was playing the World Series of poker. And my son got a chance to meet him, which was so cool because of course you know this Magnus as the greatest chess player of all time, so it's meet him in the flesh was really exciting for a 5 year old. And Magnus asked him about whether he used his app. The one that I was talking about earlier when you play magnets at different ages. In fact, he asked fabi, what age do you play me at? And fabien doesn't use that app yet. So I was really excited that Magnus kind of pushed him in that direction. As a chess mom, I try not to be pushy at all. I don't want to put any pressure on Fabian, so if he's interested in a test, we go there, if not, we don't. So this type of organic experience that can make it more interesting is so cool. Now, of course, I know it's very privileged to have the opportunity to just run into Magnus Carlsen in Las Vegas, but I do think that if you can kind of construct ways for kids to naturally get interested in the game, maybe watching different chess related movies that aren't about getting better, but can inspire them. Queen of cat way or Brooklyn castle or even the old school searching for Bobby Fischer, that is a good way, I think, to try to just make them interested themselves, right? And of course The Queen's Gambit, if you feel like you can pick episodes that are age appropriate, that that's fantastic as well. In fact, once chest parent told me that they felt like the first episode was the most problematic in that a lot of the other episodes, it was like easier to kind of screen for young viewing. So anyway, that is my advice for getting very young ones involved in chess and then the advice I gave after that is like, oh, what if they start to lose interest around 7, 8, 9, maybe you can show them some movies or some TV shows to kind of like get them re interested in the game. Another question I got was will I do a world tour promoting my book chess queens? Well, the way I see it is everywhere I go as a promotion because there's already somebody to meet that I need to give a copy of my book to. There's always an occasion to maybe reach out to girls and get them more interested in the game. But so far, to answer your question concretely, I've had book events in London. Also in Memphis and Columbus, in conjunction with the chestnuts in those cities, and then also most recently thanks to wyam Beatrice maranello at the Marshall chess club, which was a particularly cool event because I got to see some of my students from the girls club. I also got to see Emily Nguyen, the former denker champion, as well as Alice dong, who's on our women's committee, and it was a really special time. So Sophie Morris Suzuki, who just came second, and the junior girls closed, and Kimmy Lou, who was once a teacher in our girls club, really very sweet to see so many people, international arbiter, Sophia road was there. As well as mister galvin from Brooklyn castle, just a really superb crowd, came out, to support chess queens. I also had another question speaking of my girls club, and this one was about a talented young player Tunisia saha, whose skyrocketing up the rating charts, despite that, she sometimes struggles to win winning games. So the question was about how do you work on that losing momentum in a game? Well, the answer to this one is there's a reason the cliche goes winning a one game is the hardest thing in jazz. Just like chess progress in your rating, test progress in a game is not always completely linear. In fact, it rarely is. No one gives you a point because you're sparkling outpost night or perfect pawn structure is so impressive. You still have to work for it. You have to actively convert it. So my first thought without actually having seen the games would be that she's not necessarily losing momentum. But simply struggling like all chess players do. With one of the hardest parts of the game, closing the deal. CheckMate. It's authentic case that players of really all levels and ages rust the process. Rushing to just get that point, you got a good position. You got a good opening and now you want the point. Russian can often be counterproductive because when you're extremely aggressive, your opponent kind of only has one option and sometimes it makes it a little bit easier for that. By contrast, being a little bit more patient, sometimes they can't handle the pressure and they make more mistakes. So that's
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"Lot to do. There's a lot of progress to be made in the culture. Well, there is there is some measures, right? So the U.S. trust federation has an abuse hotline and abuse email, safe play guidelines, there's a Google form where if you experience an abusive incident at a U.S. testament, you can report it. So those things weren't really around. When I was playing super seriously and in college and so that's definitely an improvement. But obviously we have a long way to go because we still have so few females in the game, but I'm here for the progress. I'm here to celebrate the progress, and yet also say it's not enough. Thanks you, thanks, Chris, for your question. So next question. Daniel Laura, the fantastic podcaster, and Twitter follow at the chess experience. That's the name of his podcast. He has some amazing guests. In fact, he has this really cool goal to have 50% of his guests be female players or coaches, creators, you know, all the whole gamut of chess personalities and advocates and players. So I was one of his guests as well. And I had a really fun time on his show. I'll link to that in the show notes. He asked me both in his interview and then again, more recently about more details on this topic. About my book chess queens and the impact that's had on girls and women. And anyone. And specifically, he says, can you share a story or comment that moved you about girls and women who expressed how they'd been positively impacted by your book? Well, I'll give two. On his show, I recounted a story about another previous guest Charlotte climber. She is a wonderful Twitter follow. She's a writer and she's often on mainstream television, often talking about LGBTQ+ equality and trans rights and I interviewed her for ladies and just as we were starting to become friends. I knew who she was on Twitter and she knew who I was in chess, but we started to become friends at that point. We met at a tournament in Vegas and I interviewed her in person. That was one of the early interviews on ladies night. In fact, and at some point in the interview, the topic of books that she enjoyed came up, and she mentioned one that she read as a teenager. And she said it really moved her and it meant a lot to her because there was this great chapter about a transgender chess champion from Texas. And she said, it was called chest fit. And I froze 'cause I was like, wait, this is a joke, right? Like she knows I wrote chess bitch, but then actually it was kind of cool because for a second I was like, wow, this is like how it feels to have somebody talk about you when you're not there, but they're saying good thing. You worry about the opposite. So it was a really sweet moment. And I think he did no. Or maybe he moment entirely forgot or I don't know what the reason was, but maybe it was kind of like he had really good comic timing, but she really did have me for a minute that it was that she didn't know I wrote it. And that felt awesome. It felt really good to hear that it moved her and of course if it's a current incarnation, I even quote Charlotte herself as she talks about the U.S. transgender policy. And how she believes it's a good model for other organizations. Side note, my recent gas, yosha Iglesias, from France, one of the top ten female players in France. Recently announced on Twitter, just a couple of weeks ago, so after we recorded our podcast, that the French chess federation has just adopted a similar policy. So big congratulations to the French fed and to yosha for her advocacy to making that happen. Okay, so another example of cool things about chess queens was I was playing poker in Monaco and what are the players came up to me and said that he had been reading my book and it was none other than the world champion at the time correct out of my eye from Germany and that was just really cool for me because he's in his early 20s, early to mid 20s and he just won the world championship great players learning like all the mixed games as well now and it's really meaningful that somebody like that who you wouldn't really expect to be interested in this topic to take the time to read it. I was really flattered I have to say like really anyone who takes the time to first of all acquire my book, which by the way is currently on sale in a variety of places. You can get it at U.S. chest sales. They've been amazing. As well as on all the other usual suspects. I felt, I feel like anyway, it takes a time to acquire it. But then also read it or listen to it, it's really means a lot to me because it shows that they want me to keep doing what I'm doing. So in conclusion, if you haven't picked it up now, you know that it means a lot to me for you to do so. Oh, we got another question from a new player who asked me, what is the best way to study chess? That's a question I get a lot and it's of course very important knowing what level someone's at. I think my new player, there's a lot of great resources online, YouTube videos, opening courses, of course, lots of puzzles, opening databases, endgames, but what I would say is two things, a study plan. So kind of like a structure of what you want to work on and how many hours per day or minutes, obviously many of you are very busy. Also a community. Well, community could be one friend to start, or it could be two friends, but the idea is people at a similar level, or also a similar level of commitment to studying. So they don't even need to be the same rating class as you. They could be stronger. They could be a little weaker. You probably don't usually want somebody much weaker, but again, it's about that commitment to studying and getting better so that you're kind of matching each other's goals so that you can kind of keep each other motivated. I think that's incredibly important because everyone plateaus, if you're smart and motivated and new to the game, guess what? You're going to improve a lot at first. Because you don't know anything. So you have a lot to improve. But what's going to keep you going when you hit that plateau. A couple of things. If you can afford it, of course, a coach, but if you can't afford a private coach, it's those chest Friends. And it's at plan.
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"Hello everyone. Welcome back to ladies night. This is Jennifer shahadi and today we're gonna do something a little different and I'm gonna do a Q&A podcast with some questions from Friends of the podcast as well as some of my students at the U.S. chess girls club and some recent social media inquiries. So I'm gonna kick it off with a question from national master alara Smith. He was a previous guest on this podcast fantastic episode, go look it up. She's also a content creator, a mom of three, really such a positive energy in the chest world. She asks me if I were to come back to competitive jazz, what would my study plan be? Specifically, she says that I know you, and I know you would commit months ahead of time to study. So hypothetically, if you were planning a 2023 torni, how would I prep? Well, that's a great question, and she's absolutely right. I certainly would take a lot of time if I was going to play in over the board tournament. To work out a bunch of kinks. So the number one thing is I would start structuring and opening plan. When I was at my peak of 2400 U.S. chess, 23 50, 60 feet a, my opening style was very sharp. That's where I got a lot of my wins. Not necessarily in the opening itself, but because the style of my opening repertoire gave me positions that I excelled in. And so that's really tough that's actually one of the reasons players like me struggle to kind of hop in and out of chest. Because if you have that style, you really have to stay sharp. It's not like I'm playing the English and the French, and I can kind of like, you know, just whiz back in and rely on my structural kind of knowledge of the systems. Instead, I really would have to just go back in and dig and I would probably use chessable, which my brother raves about to help me memorize. And then I would also create a structure. And honestly, one thing that might surprise people is I think I might try to do something totally off the wall for me and play The Queen's Gambit. I mean, I love the Netflix show, but it's also like I've always thought it was a beautiful opening and it would be a way to make the process a little less repetitive, right? So it would feel a bit fresh, like something different than when I played just before. I don't know if that would actually be good for my results though, but it would be educational. So I might try that. But let's be honest. I've got a lot going on, and I'm a very creative person. I love writing books. I just came out with chess queens. I'm under contract to write another book called thinking sideways. Which is about strategies and poker and chest to not only get better at games, but to get better at life and to improve the lives around those around you. So thinking sideways, chest queens, my podcasts, my poker career, I think that the only way I would really undertake a big chess project would be if there was some kind of like creative or cinematic reason, I don't think I would do it just to prove to myself that I could. Because I did, you know, win three titles, three major titles, play all over the world, represent my country. I feel like proving to myself that I could do it again. Wouldn't really be enough considering all the other things that I could do. Although, playing a totally different opening and learning about the other country of chess, one B four, at least satiate my curiosity. So I think that if I did it, that's how I would do it, and it would have to be attached to some kind of film or writing project. I think, to make the creative aspect of it fit my personality now. Another friend of the podcast, Chris Wayne Scott, asks that if I were to do that because he had a similar question, what do I think has changed either positively or negatively about how women are accepted and treated in recent years? Well, you know, I'm always going to have a little bit of a different perspective in this because I'm a well-known chess player. And I have a master level rating. So I don't necessarily think that the girls and women that were targeting is really that applicable to my experience. And I think that's a really important thing to always keep in mind when you're trying to fight sexism and you want to make the world more open, whatever world it is, that your experience is just one experience and that it might not match the people that you're trying to reach. Okay, that said, of course, I observe a lot. You know, from the point of view of my girls club and my commentary and just my observations and the whole chest landscape for so many years, I think that what's gotten better is that there's more male allies, lots of men out there who are speaking up about how it's just not cool the way that women are sometimes treated. And it's also just not cool that there are so few of us. Makes the world more toxic when there's not a balance. Or I won't say it makes the world more toxic automatically. It definitely makes it more susceptible to toxicity. Right? So that I think we're getting more men who clearly want a more balanced ratio. That's awesome because we're the large majority in chess. So we want them to want that, right? The other positive is I think the media does a better job with treating women players with respect. Less focus on their looks. You know, that's something I write about in chess queens. There was a time where even major test websites would go on and on about the looks of the players, even the measurements without talking about their chest games or the ratings. And that's not ancient history, you know, that was like ten years ago. So that's a major improvement as well. Oh, the only negative that I can think of off the top of my head is the way that social media can create a culture of bullying and anonymous bullying trolling. So that can kind of like bring a lot of the misogyny under the surface, bubbling up to the top. And it can be really difficult for I think women and girls and gender minorities who are new to the game. To feel like it's worth playing chess if they're encountering that. Now, fortunately, there are a lot of forces trying to counter that. By shutting down trolls, blocking accounts, but it's pretty insidious, I'd say. Finally, one positive I'd say is that there is more awareness in the culture at large about the dangers of sexual harassment and sexual assault and just bullying as well. Abusive behavior, so while there's a lot,
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"Described that this distinction between doing and being is really powerful, a lot of people will learn from understanding that you have that Eureka moment. How did you announce this? 'cause you mentioned it was very powerful the first time that you said out loud, I am a trans woman or I am a woman. First time when I was one I could say that, okay, I'm not a gender man. I'm not a man. It was the first step, but it's only took me a couple of weeks from this to, okay, I can now say one other person, I'm a transgender woman. It was mainly difficult for me to express it. I remember when I was 18, 1819 20, I felt I decided everything similar to imo transform and our faces like I wish I were a woman or to one to one girl one friend of mine who has a woman I want to be. If I could choose, I would transform myself into a woman if I had a magic wand. I would transform myself into a woman. And so on and so on. But I didn't have the courage or the understanding of saying how much trans women. So the first time I could say it, it felt just amazing. Like imagine serving as a most difficult chess studies ever. And after struggling for years, and years of because my life made no sense, I mean, related to my relations, I love and everything. It may no sense if we consider that I was a boy. And as soon as I could say, I'm a trans woman, everything made sense. It was crystal clear and it was the biggest Euro cameraman and euphoric and not everyone is the same, of course. What applies to me does not necessarily apply to other women, but for me, it was much euphoric and powerful momentum of my life, I think. And the first time or the second time, because you mentioned that there was this, the first time you said it was to who to my best friend, I mean, I was the best friend ever. With a chess player also the master and women international master. We are best friends from 15 years maybe. So she knew everything about me and fantasy with that. Question. And we talked about gender a lot. Yeah, it was through her that I first say after many years of talking about gender that, okay, I'm not about. This is a fight. And then a couple of weeks later, I'm a transformer. It sounds like you have many supportive friends. I have the best friends. Most of my best Friends are women just players, French women, just by us..
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"Have some souls every day how to help mind more. So yeah, I can see that you're thinking constantly working constantly and getting messages constantly. I really admire both your bravery and your commitment to continually helping from the moment you escaped, it seems until it's been about a week or two now. And by the time people are listening to this a few weeks, you seem just totally tireless and it's commendable and beautiful to see. I think a lot of us are seeing that in the Ukrainian spirit from so many people, right? That we're just seeing that you are a country of very hardworking and dedicated people with such a big heart. It's really beautiful. Are you able to relax or think about chess at all? In this time, can you think about chess at all? Is it an escape to play a few bullet games or is it just like completely not in your head right now? No, I have some planned to play chess in the future, but it's some unpredictable future for now. You won't just future I don't know. But yes, as I said before I try to bring you my chest trainees. So for the first two days when I started this coordination financial help to ventures, it was very difficult for me because it took her 24, almost 24 hours, just 24 hours with my smartphone just. I need to do that. I need to do that. So it was difficult, but then after two or three days I get used to this. So for now it's a little bit easier for me. But I try to find two or three hours per day to train to work out my chest skills so yes, I also provide just lessons for children. I do it when I have free time and when I have more forces put it because it also takes some mental and co investment, mental forces, absolutely, absolutely. Well, I'm glad that you're able to have that time because you can in chat, it's not exactly relaxing, but it's very absorbing. So you're able to just think about something else for an hour, right? I'm sure is a gift and able to renew you with your with all of your important work. Yeah, thank you so much. I'm so grateful that you were able to talk to me so that I could get a greater understanding of everything and, you know, it strikes me that you were in France just a few days before all this happened. I mean, do you ever think about a parallel universe where you were still in France? Then your mother would have been in Kyiv alone, right? Yes, yes. By the way, when I was in France, so today's here before the war started and of course we are all bothered about the situation because a lot of Russian troops were only to our borders so their attacks can happen in any time. And when they back and I had my last flight because I had two flights when I backed from France and it was from Warsaw to Kyiv and it was delayed for two hours and I was so afraid that I wasn't able to back home. I was nervous a lot about that because yes my mom can stay alone and keep and I just I don't know what to what would I do if I if I had such situation but okay, thanks God I was able to back in tea and we were both and so we were able to think together we were together and it's a very very important menu had some such. Work such horror situations that were events in your life. Very important to be with us someone else. Yeah, you needed each other. Yeah. Did you play chess? Who was the one who taught you, trust? She also plays chess, she is just gorgeous. She has, oh my God. So two years experience. Yes, and she was my first coach. Wow. Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah. When did she teach you? Why don't I took my first tournament and I was able to shoot my first chess category? Oh, okay. Yeah, I see, you know, we don't really have that in the United States in the same way. I know that in a lot of countries, it's very important. So it's like basically you move up one level, like on a ladder. Yes, yes, yes, so and then when I was 5, I took another category and then another and when I was 8 I informed my first Ukrainian chess championship and then my parents decided, okay, maybe she will play chess. And then they started to train you more. And it's a tough country to be really successful in chess because the women's team is so strong. But you were able to do it. So you played in the world youth championships and you probably also helped you that there were so many strong Ukrainian women around, right? Are you Friends with a mini women on the team? Yes, I assume that it's very difficult to join the national team. It's very, very difficult for sure. And I'm completely sure the time is to tell a lot of time. But I think that it's possible to reach it in some time. You're definitely going to have a lot of people rooting for you when you're back playing in the olympiad, you I can see you there with the blue and yellow. Definitely representing the team. So and I see a rock Mongolia has been amazing. She is an incredible human being. I think you can tell from this interview. So passionate and brave, a big thank you for all you're doing to kind of not only help but also to shine a light for the rest of the world as to what's really happening. Because when you know one person and you see what they're going through, it can help you understand everyone and what they're going through. Thank you, William times. I'm grateful to you. I was happy to be with you right now. If you like what we're doing at USGS to encourage women and girls to explore stem fields, accentuate competence and approach an even ratio with a focus on intersectionality, your donation to our U.S. chess women programs is always appreciated. And tax deductible. The U.S. test suite of podcasts, including ladies night, are produced and edited by Jason Andre at 7 season films, photography and media. Please visit 7 season films dot com to find out how to start your own podcast. 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"Is Jennifer shahadi and today I have a special guest who was inspired me for a very long time. Hailing from Ecuador, Martha fierro is an international master, woman's grandmaster, FIDE vice president, international organizer, and two time Olympic medalist. Is that right, Martha, two times, or did you win even more? No, it's yes. And 2008. She is also represented her country Ecuador in the open division and has been sportsperson of the year for her many international, as well as Ecuadorian and Pan American titles. She's the founder and head trainer of the Martha viero international chess academy, and she also brings chess into underserved neighborhoods in Ecuador via the I have listened to barrio program. On a personal note though, Martha is one of my favorite personalities in chess because of her enthusiasm for the game. And her total lack of pretension. When I was just 1300 and about 12 or 13 years old, and I was on the fence about how seriously I was going to take chassis, I remember seeing Martha at a tournament in Washington, D.C.. She was already a chess master, and I thought she was very, very cool. I was right about that. Nonetheless, she still took time between the games despite our big rating deferential to mentor me and tell me about her adventures with an Olympic champion and she really treated me as an equal despite being such a beginner compared to her and I really think of that as very formative and it just goes to show you how a champion can make such a difference in somebody's life with a small gesture. So thank you very much, Martha for that tournament in Washington, D.C.. Some years ago and for coming on the podcast today. Thank you very much for the introduction. I feel very honored. I remember this tournament in Washington. It was fantastic. It was very nice to meet you. And I remember you were around to 1300, but I think after one or two years we were already 21, 2200. I mean, it was amazing. You also how you improve so fast. And I saw you many tournaments after that. So chess brings friendship from different parts of the world. Chess doesn't lack. I'm very happy I got to meet you very happy that I continue with chess. It's our life. It's my life. I love it. And I'm happy to share it with the many children, adults, I just love chef. That shows your enthusiasm for the game is so infectious. And it's funny that we met at around the time that I was 12 or 13 because as I understand it, you learn chess a little bit later than most Olympic champions and great champions. On tell us a little bit about when you first started out and how you were able to catch up with people who learned when they were in diapers. I started to learn chess when I was around 13 years old. My father taught me how to move the pieces. But you know, we only knew how to move the pieces, but he was giving a scholar made all the time. He was not telling me how to protect myself from their mates. So he was really a beginner, but okay, after I learned some more moves and I started to go to a chess academy where and then I started to improve a little bit more and more and more interested then I started to play tournaments in the United States. So United States was my key place to improve chess I was going all the time to Marshall and we had francess club. I was playing many tournaments and to tell you the truth, people were always very friendly with me. They were analyzing games with me, masters, and then I was playing all the time. And this is how I started to play chess. And to tell you that truth also at the same time, I was competing internationally in swimming as well for equity. So in one moment I had to choose between swimming and chess and I chose S in when I started to play a 90 91, I think, or 1990, I remember I played in 1991, the first regional women's championship. And they were 9 games. And I lost all 9 games, you know? And I was like, oh my God, can I be so bad for chess? I was thinking to myself, you know? And it's not possible to lose all games, you know? So I remember after that, we went to the United States and we went to New York and I started to play in the attic clubs, like after school, I was playing every tournament every tournament every time. Then the next year, 1992, I went back to a quarter and I want the original woman championship and then I won the national women championship. So after a year, I bring number one player neck weather until the moment. So I think it happened because of the first result I had. I had 9 losses. So I had to make a decision. Oh, probably quick chairs or maybe proved myself that I could play chess, but the problem was that I was not I didn't have any training and experience. So I chose the right way to play to train to practice and it brought results. That's fascinating. So because you had such a bad result, you weren't able to stagnate. You had to either dramatically improve or get the heck out. It was true. Because one draw. But he gave me a lot of strength because I could not be in the middle. I had to my personality I had to decide if I was too bad for chess and I could not I should say with swimming or I should prove myself that it was only because the girls in the tournament and a woman in front of us were more experienced had many more years playing chess. So if I could catch up, I could win. So I always like, you know, the competition and I like to prove myself. So I went on and then this is how I paint and chest until the moment. So you still did swimming for fun, I take.
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"Like the rubbing your belly in. And patting your head that can be a little bit difficult. Yeah. So, tell us more about this tournament. It was in Peru as a Pan American championship and how old were you at the time? I believe in the 16. You were 16. I believe so. So you were 16 years old and talk to us about the invitations. Presumably you got an invitation to play the girls and the open at the same time and you just got to pick. How did that conversation with yourself and with your parents go? So honestly, my parents have always been playing the hardest section. So like even when I was a 13 like just really lower rated, they would always put me in open sections. They would never put me in like rent category sections. So because of that, I grew up at the centrality of like, oh, you should always try to play against the best players. That's how you get better. You learn from the mistakes that you make. And you get challenged by good players. So when it came to deciding this, it wasn't really that much of a question. It was like, okay, you know, I can play in the open section where I was raped like 11th at the start, like as a starting seed. So it wasn't like I was, I had no chance of meddling or doing well. And the girl section just like the at least for where I was at the time, I don't exactly know what my starting rank would be if I've stayed in the girls section, but there were just not as many higher rated players. So that the main decision. Yeah, so it wasn't a really difficult decision for you. You knew that you wanted to take the opportunity to play the open tournament? And it sounds like based in your essay, you have a great writing style. You did get more comments than usual at the event. In fact, you say, I've never been doused with so many degrading comments and it was difficult to prevent them from seeping in. Why do my gender matter? Why didn't people tell the kid who plays last in my section that he didn't belong? And in the end, you did tie for 6 out of over 60 players. So you had a solid, strong result. So what kind of things were people saying to you? People would just ask me a lot like, oh, why are you playing in the section or they would look really surprised like when I told them what section I was playing and even when I did lose a game or like I didn't win a game, people, like even if it was someone lower rated than me, which, you know, usually they were, they would be like, oh, it's okay you're playing a hard section and you know, and it's just like that I'm supposed to win. Like, according to my rating, like I'm supposed to be the better player I'm supposed to win. So I don't know why you're saying this to me. So it was kind of just like that. And it was different because, you know, most of my career I've always played in open sections. So, you know, I didn't get as much of those comments because there's no separate girl section. But when you were playing in the tournament where there is that option, then I felt like there was some sort of expectation for me to play in the girls section and not the open section. Understandable. So it sounds like actually adding the rural section made it more of a thing. That's that I've read some interviews with you and it sounds like you have mixed feelings on girls and women's events and despite what you're saying now. You don't necessarily have only negative feelings towards them. I often honestly have weighed this question in ladies night, 'cause I know my guests have questions about it so often, but you've clearly fought and written about these so deeply. So I have to ask, if you had to wear or magic wand, how would you structure test competitions in terms of girls events and women's events and open events? So here's my thoughts on that. I think that girls events and what most events are really helpful for getting girls involved. And I think that was kind of one of the main reasons why they had a section specifically for those women is to encourage more female participation. So I think that's really good and that's really great. But there are also some girls who want to play in the open section. So I'm not exactly sure how it would structure it per se, but I think that if a girl wants to play in the open section, like that should be celebrated. Instead of, and I think it's getting better, even though it hasn't been that long since I've been playing, but I think it's becoming more widely accepted for girls to start playing and open section. So I think that is good and that's great. I do think it's very celebrated in general, but I think the flip side of it is that there are also so many amazing girls and women's sections and girls are getting so strong that usually the girls and women's sections are pretty tough as well that sometimes the incentive is not always there to play in the open. If you can get strong competition from the girls anyway and there's so many girls events. That's just something interesting. And I've seen people like Judah polgar kind of create this tournament for play Magnus where the champions chess tour where it's about bringing young girls like Carissa yip and I think she's the only American playing at the moment, but Carissa yip and then a lot of international girls and then also bringing in top junior players and trying to just mix it up a little bit. Yeah, no, I think that's awesome. And I think that's really good. Yeah, almost 50 you need to be kind of creative these days because it's hard to get obviously there's lots of great open events, but it does tend that if you have a girl section and an open section, the open section is mostly male, just because of the disparity and how many girls play the game. Yeah, for sure. So you actually wrote about this topic, the gender divide in chess. At Washington University, can you tell us a little bit about why you chose that topic and what you ended up working on? This was my freshman year of college. So Tesla is like coming out of high school. It was a big part of my life. So during this creative writing class, you could basically do a research shop in a whatever you wanted to do. So I thought, well, I always wanted to know why there was a gender divide in chess and thought. So I was like, okay, yeah, why not do a research project on it? So I did a lot of research looking up a lot of different sources. And I also decided to interview some of the players that I knew and ask them what their thoughts were on this topic as well. And whether they felt any different when they were playing against people the same gender or a different sex as well. So that was kind of the inspiration for this paper. Yeah, and what were you most surprised about from the results or from your research? I would say that I mean, in some respects like as a female player, I was kinda I don't know if I'm necessarily surprised. I knew that the females that I interviewed by and large like were more aware of these differences than the guys were. So I think that that wasn't necessarily at was surprising to me. But yeah, I mean, I thought it was just like a great way just to interview the players that I knew and get their thoughts. The stereotype threat. Can you talk to us a little bit about what that means? Yeah. I think usually it's in relation to like mathematics, for instance, so it's like, oh, there is this stereotype that females for instance are not.
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"To the horror that war brings to the horror of not respecting human beings to the horror that happens in the world if we're not careful, if we do not fight not for peace for respect for human beings and especially for children for solidarity for all that is good in the world, just true, love, laughter, solidarity, friendship. There are so many beautiful things. Let's throw the others in the garbage. Not solidarity. Let me check on the better shows. If you like what we're doing at U.S. jazz to encourage women and girls to explore stem fields, accentuate competence and approach an even ratio with a focus on intersectionality, your donation to our U.S. chess women programs is always appreciated and tax deductible. The U.S. chest suite of podcasts, including ladies night, are produced and edited by Jason Andre at 7 season films, photography and media. Please visit 7 season films dot com to find out how to start your own podcast. Don't forget to listen and subscribe to all U.S. chess masks. From one move at a time, cover stories in the chess underground. Till next time may.
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"I definitely have goals there. I am actually collaborating with people who are more knowledgeable of Twitch. You know in life, everything feels so much like, oh, I'll do this and you'll, you know, like this is a job, but Twitch is one place where it's like it's not my job. I like it. And I get to meet really cool people. And it's a fun network type of thing. But yeah, in terms, I would love an app. So if you know one, please send me that send my way. I'm always looking to get my time management better. But I like the idea. I love consistency. That's why I love teaching a class. I love that. That's helpful. And things like that. But yeah, if there is a magic app or a Mary Poppins, would be great too. Well, you're already doing great at it. Who do you collab with? I'm so excited to have collaborated with Lisa orlova from Canada. She's so she took her time to help me with my stream and yeah, this learning from different people. And it's really cool because some of the streamers that I've been meeting, they might actually play other games and chess might just be just one of their games. They might have a lot of followers and so for me, because I come with that expertise, but I don't necessarily know all these watch me name jobs and Twitch things that I don't even know. I don't know about sub battles and popular all these words that give them learning. And it's okay, and I'm very like, I don't mind. I'm in my 30s. It's okay. I don't need to know all these lingos. But they're very happy to show me that while I teach them, yes, the London. Or I show them, you know, some kind of cool way to look at a puzzle. So it's really cool. It's like, it's fun. I love the technology, learning things and, you know, I want my kids to be up with the coding and all that. So that's where I see the collaboration. Oh, that's amazing. Yeah, that's true. I did stream early in the pandemic and I learned so much in such a short period of time because you're just kind of forced into learning about all the technology and you kind of even if you have people helping you at the end of the day if you're streaming even even infrequently, there's so many things you just have to kind of learn on your own because you hit some kind of wall. And it's great just to be educated in such like a quick way because you're out there, your face is there, and you need to learn these things. Exactly. Now, speaking of the women's classes, we did get a question from one of our regulars, Stacey, thank you for the question. She asks, I would love to hear the process of how players typically prepare for big tournaments and how Laura is preparing for herself. So I mean, back when you played big tournaments, what was your prep?.
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"Yeah, I guess I just love that I've had opportunities like the school I work at has a great chess community, so I get to be part of that. I'm lucky for that. And I get my summer off. Oh yeah, you're gearing up for that right now. So 8 weeks early, your twins came. Oh, I guess because they were twins they weren't really expected till 37 weeks. I mean, but you're right. 5 weeks earlier, your twins came, and then on top of that, this was during the very beginning of the pandemic. So right at the beginning of the lockdown, yeah. Were you able to have your husband come to the hospital? So Sean was the last one of the final I guess you could say partners of the mother, right? Who were allowed in, so it was tough. But yeah, he got to meet the baby's very briefly, and they spent their time in the nicu and he wasn't allowed in only me. So again, when you see this happy positive outlook, I guess it's because we're all home and happy and it's such a, that's, I guess. Perspective, getting through that means everything else is easier. That is a really wonderful perspective. I mean, it's something you hear a lot that if you go through the worst, then you're more appreciative or health and happiness. And maybe we can't say that it was the worst because as we know your outcomes were very positive. You have three thriving children and seems like great careers, but some very trying times indeed. And now you kind of can see what really matters in life. Exactly. Chess openings. So tell me about the projects that you're most excited about right now because it is a summer, so you've got some time off and I know that you're not just sitting around. Of course you have your three kids that are gonna keep you busy, but you got some other stuff on the side, don't you? Yeah, so I'm really excited. You know, with the chest boom to be very honest, it's just opened up some new opportunities that I was very excited to be part of. So I've been able to film some chest courses. I've done two so far. And one's just launched. It's been great because it was easy to film because as you know, I do have three kids, so I wasn't able to travel far to do this, but we were able to film right in Brooklyn. So I just saw my first course, the art of the gambit. And yeah, as a young chess player, I remember one of my first openings was the king's gambit. I felt bad not including it in this course, but it wasn't one I've played that much in recent years, but gambits in general definitely have been the highlight of chest for me. Playing them, watching them. And yeah, so I was able to select some dynamic gambits for both when you're playing white and for when you're playing black. And I'm excited about that. It's now the courses launched and a lot of excellent chess teachers and chess players are also creating courses on the website as well. And this is effective chess dot com. Can you and we'll of course put the link to that in the show notes. What's your absolute number one favorite gambit?.
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"It's been it's been tough, but I guess what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and it's amazing, you know, now seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. You know, not sweating the small things, but still wanting to win those chess games. It's just a funny, a funny reality. Yeah, light at the end of the tunnel I mean, I guess towards when they started going to school again, is when you got looped into this U.S. test women program. So I guess that was probably pretty good timing as you still are incredibly busy, but you had a little bit of a sliver of time here and there. And we're grateful that you gave some of it to us. I gotta just say it's been an absolute joy like working with the women beginner class, which we kind of joke now, right? Because becoming intermediate leveled. Yeah, it was just like, you know, it's interesting because I feel like, you know, as a mom and just a person, it's just nice to have your own little like you said that little sliver of your own time and it's so important. Yeah, like even with the busy schedules and the, you know, the nonstop feeding and caring for our kids and our jobs, but it's fun also just to make time for things this is like a passion, just like chess and teaching it now is I get a lot of joy out of it. And you know, since then, you've also started to stream. So you're teaching these adult women's beginner classes and you also do some streaming at Laura love's chest. What surprised you most about this new world of streaming and teaching chassis on Zoom? Yeah, no, this is something that's been so surprising. It's how easy it is to access chest content, you know. I've always been connected to chest, but it's been in different ways and with The Queen's Gambit and then with the pandemic and then so many things aligned and I got really, I got really into it. I just love watching streamers from the larger streamers to the small streamers all around the world who are just so excited about chess. And you know, just going on Twitch and seeing the amount of viewers that chest now brings is so exciting for me when I was younger I didn't have that and I'm so I'm so excited for the new generation because I know the newest grandmaster you know, he mentioned how he the newest youngest brand master how he studied all these chess able courses, which, you know, are amazing. And it's just so cool that, you know, people can be inspired from all over the world to learn now. There's just, you know, when I was a kid, books are wonderful and there's nothing like a coach, a one on one coach, but it's great now that you can be your own coach, too. And I say that because I want to coach myself. I want to get better. And there's no excuses because of all there are so many free courses and then not just amazing. There's just all these resources, YouTube and everything. And streams, you can just like absorb so much and enjoy it. Like my family sometimes will have chest dot com live chess.
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"When he turned 14, one time I was able to top the 13 for boys and girls, which was really, which is really wonderful. But it's funny because it was when his birthday turned to 14. Yeah, he December and you must be or to use Frank? I'm a September baby. Okay. Okay, so he was like ten months older than you or something. Nice. Yeah. So that's a great accomplishment. I mean, to be the top 13 year old in the country of either gender, that must have felt really good, even though you didn't get a trophy in the mail or anything, but it's just knowing that, you know, you broke that record, which is a record for both genders. I think that's really significant. Thank you, yeah. Again, very lucky I've had just like so much encouragement that I can just and I mean, luckily what you guys are doing at U.S. chess is amazing. But, you know, as a young, you know, as a young chess player at my age, I just feel like it was so rare to see in America many girls at all, play. Luckily, very lucky to have made friends with the ones that do play that we're in similar age, but yeah, it was, you know, being in a room of very few girls back then. And 13 is actually a nation that a lot of girls quit. So that's pretty cool. I think that has happened since. I'd have to check all the stats of how many times, but I'm pretty sure Rachel Lee or Alice Lee were number one in their age group at some point over the last few years. But yeah, it's really cool to see girls breaking these records left and right. And yeah, you're in that lineage. And now you were mom of three and a fourth grade teacher. You were a third grade teacher. Now you're a fourth grade teacher. Tell us a little bit about your approach or interest level in teaching your own kids jazz. Yeah, really, really cool topic in that. So yeah, my oldest is about to turn four and we have been playing on a board. You know, I've been teaching her just really mastering the ponds. But, you know, and my husband, Sean is also very much in the chest world. You know, director for school programs for chess in the schools. And so you know, we both show her some stuff, but it's definitely not the priority to teach our children just chess, but of course it's such a big part of both of our lives. We will definitely introduce it to them. And my younger, my younger twins, their 15 months, so they haven't they've seen some chess pieces on the board at this point. But my daughter already yeah, she's learning like the have a pond captures and lands on that square. But yeah, we're at those beginning stages. Definitely, she knows that we both love chess. She knows like Saturdays are for chest because that's when often the tournaments are. That Sean runs and I'll play in, but yeah, that's kind of where we're at..
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"Was around 8 or 9, I remember qualifying for the world youth, girls under ten. So 97 in France. That was a big turning point. Yeah, I got to go to France. It was really cool. And that's when I started, you know, making lifelong friends with a lot of chest people that I still I'm in touch with today. Thankfully. And yeah, like it was actually interesting because when I got there, I played other girls from all over the world and I lost a lot of games and it was something new for me to lose. To people my own age, I had been getting a lot of early success here. But that's when I was like hungry to win study to get better. Yeah, that's pretty cool because at your time, there weren't a lot of young girls who were super strong like you were, so when you went to these world youth tournaments, you met them. And you befriended them, so that must have given you this kind of like kick to improve your own game. Yeah, absolutely. And just being immersed in that chess culture for it was like 11 rounds. So think about all those days of travel and like playing chess in the airport playing bug house in blitz and all of that just nonstop immersion really helped me very lucky to have that opportunity. Now, I wasn't a prodigy in the same way that you were, I guess, I don't know if you consider yourself a prodigy, but you were really early talent. I was a little later, so when I only got to play in a few world use and I remember it being like the best thing ever, though. I played him maybe like two or three because I only started when I was 16, and my birthday is December 31st. So I aged out of the real fast. But the few that I got the play were such a privilege and I just remember it being like the most exciting thing in the world to find out where it was going to be. Yeah, well, thank you. I don't consider myself a prodigy. I definitely loved the game. And you know, I feel like the amount of time that I dedicated to it and the luckiness I had to have lessons every week. And my parents brought me every week to tournaments, you know? It became a big priority. But I definitely felt like the game spoke to me like some have music speak to them or different activities, you know? But I agree, I remember being like, is it where is it going to be next? And wow, what I found out we were going to grease, and I was like, wow, that's amazing. Argentina just to name. Just lucky to have traveled so much from chess. Yeah, it's a quite an experience. And what do you think of as your biggest accomplishment as a player? For me, it's kind of funny because some of my contemporary well they're not. Their world class players, but I got to grow up with. So hikaru, nakamura, the amazing GM nakamura. So hikaru is a little just a slight bit older than me..