238 - Chess Queens - Jennifer Shahade

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🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In this episode we sit down with Jennifer Shahade, a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, author, speaker, and professional poker player whose new book, Chess Queens, is the true story of the greatest female players of all time interwoven with her own experiences as a chess champion. How Minds Change: www.davidmcraney.com/howmindschangehome Contest: https://sites.prh.com/hmc-giveaway Show Notes: www.youarenotsosmart.com Newsletter: https://davidmcraney.substack.com Jennifer Shahade’s Website: https://jennifershahade.com Patreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart

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0:00.0	How Minds Change? My new book. It came out one month ago today. The day I'm recording this, one month ago.
0:06.7	If you go to David McGranny.com or you click on the link in the show notes right there in your podcast player,
0:13.3	go to the homepage for How Minds Change. You can find a link to a contest where I'm giving away five copies of the book.
0:21.1	All you have to do is click, click, click, and you're in the contest. You're in the running to win.
0:25.8	Also, you can find a roundtable video there with a group discussion of persuasion experts featured in the book.
0:31.9	You can read a sample chapter, download a discussion guide, sign up for the newsletter, read reviews.
0:38.1	If you scrolled the bottom, you can find links to the many, many, many podcasts and YouTube channels.
0:43.7	I've been appearing on telling everyone all about it. Keep sending pictures to me.
0:48.2	Keep sending photos of yourself with the book or just the book in weird places.
0:52.8	Maybe not weird places. Just places where books should be.
0:56.0	Anyway, send those to me. I'm really enjoying those and I will keep putting them up on all the social media places where you do that sort of thing.
1:03.6	Thank you so much. And now, the show.
1:22.5	Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast. Episode 238.
1:36.3	Did you enjoy the Queen's Gambit? Well, we're going to talk about it in this episode because I have an actual chess champion, Jennifer Shahadeh is a two-time US women's chess champion, an author, a speaker,
2:05.0	and a professional poker player. She was the first woman to win the US Junior Open and she hosts two award-winning podcasts, The Grid and Ladies Night, Can Night, Ladies Night.
2:17.0	The Grid won a global poker award for the best poker podcast in the world.
2:22.9	She has written for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, and she's the author of Chess Queens.
2:31.5	The true story of a chess champion and the greatest female players of all time.
2:37.1	Jennifer is our guest in this episode. And before we get into the interview, I'd like to tell you a little bit about one of the women she writes about in the book.
2:45.4	In chess queens, Jennifer writes about how in 1937, in simmering Austria, Vera Minchik, and Sonia Graf faced off against each other in a game of chess, but not just any game of chess.
2:59.4	These were two of the greatest chess players of all time facing off for the first time.
3:05.1	It was the women's world championship, which had been founded a decade earlier in 1927 by the International Chess Federation.
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