Jennifer Shahade
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Full name | Jennifer Shahade |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | December 31, 1980
Title | Woman Grandmaster |
FIDE rating | 2322 (Sept 2011) |
Jennifer Shahade (born December 31, 1980 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American chess player and writer. She is a two-time American women's chess champion and, as of October 2012, has a FIDE rating of 2322. She has the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster. Jennifer is the author of the book Chess Bitch. She also writes for the magazine Chess Life and is the daughter of FIDE Master Mike Shahade and Drexel University chemistry professor and author Sally Solomon, and the sister of International Master Greg Shahade.
In 1998, she became the first (and so far only) woman to win the U.S. Junior Open. In 2002, she won the U.S. Women's Chess Championship in Seattle, Washington. The following year, although she did not repeat as U.S. Women's Champion, she did well enough to earn her second of three required International Master norms. In 2004, she returned to the top spot among U.S. women chess players by winning the U.S. Women's Championship that year in a seven-player invitational round-robin tournament.
Shahade lives in Philadelphia and has earned a degree in comparative literature at New York University. Her writing has appeared in the LA Times, The New York Times, Chess Life, New In Chess, and chessninja.com. Her first book, Chess Bitch: Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Sport (Siles Press, ISBN 1-890085-09-X) was published in October 2005.
In 2006 Shahade was hired by the United States Chess Federation to be the web editor-in-chief of its site. In 2007 Shahade co-founded a chess non-profit called 9 Queens.
Shahade is also a poker player; she finished 17th out of 1286 in the 2007 Ladies World Series of Poker, and 33rd out of 1190 in the same event in 2008. She is ranked #1395 on the Global Poker Index (on July 11th 2014). On December 9th 2014 Shahade won the first TonyBet Open Face Chinese Poker Live World Championship High Roller Event taking home €100,000.
Books
- Shahade, Jennifer (2005). Chess Bitch: Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Sport. Siles Press. ISBN 1-890085-09-X.
- Shahade, Jennifer (2011). Play Like a Girl!. Mongoose Press. ISBN 978-1-936277-03-2.
External links
- Jen Shahade's official web site
- Jennifer Shahade rating card at FIDE
- 9 Queens: Jen Shahade's non-profit organization web site
- A Philadelphia Weekly article about Jen
- A Chessbase article about Jen
- "Chess Queen", by Paul Hoffman, Smithsonian Magazine, August 2003
- ChessManiac.com Interview
- Interview with Jennifer Shahade
- Jennifer Shahade Hendon Mob profile
- Jennifer Shahade GPI profile
- Jennifer Shahade Becomes the First-Ever OFC World Championship High Roller Champion!
- Kramer Bussel, Rachel (December 28, 2006). "Jennifer Shahade, Author, Chess Bitch, U.S. Women's Chess Champion 2002, 2004". Gothamist.
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