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Don't miss your chance to sit in with WGM Jennifer Shahade for a special guest lecture on Thursday evening at 6 p.m.
Shahade, who regularly provides commentary for the U.S. Championships and is the Web editor of Chess Life Online (CLO - www.uschess.org), will present a one-time-only class regarding the tactics on pawn promotion with her special lecture: Reaching the 8th Rank.
Free for club members, this lecture will include interactive components designed to engage the audience. Be prepared to get involved!
In addition to her work with CLO and the U.S. Championships, Shahade is an author and video producer.
Her first book, Chess Bitch: Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Sport, received critical acclaim. Starting in 2009, Jennifer began to create videos with DimMak Films, a production company based in Philadelphia to promote chess, including naked chess (which promoted the title, Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess), hulachess and the U.S. Chess Scoop, a chess news show hosted on uschess.org.
Shahade was born into a chess family. Her brother Greg is an IM, and her father, Michael, is a three-time Pennsylvania State Champion.
In 2007, Jennifer co-founded a non-profit, 9queens, devoted to promoting chess especially to girls and women. You can read more about the organization in the Hip-Hop Variation, a Chess Life Magazine article about a 9queens event.
Jennifer also edited the upcoming book, Play Like a Girl! Tactics by 9 Queens in conjunction with 9 Queens and Mongoose Press.
