D'Costa

Broschiertes Buch

She Plays to Win - Be Inspired by Our Chess Queens

Beschreibung

This book contains games from every single female World Champion, as well as young up and comers, top seasoned professionals, streamers, and even a section at Beth Harmon from the recent famed Queen’s Gambit hit show. This book is not just for girls and women, however. Any chess player can learn from these games and discover female chess history, both from the famous players in the past right up to the present day. How have these games been selected? It is at this point I can mention the real reason- my UK Girls chess project called ‘She Plays To Win’ (SPTW). This group has officially been going since April 11th 2020. I had the idea even a few years before, but I was not sure how it could be set up. The unfortunate events of worldwide lock-down provided the answer, as the switch to being online allowed me to offer zoom lessons for UK girls as well as weekly girls tournaments on the Lichess server. I do this for free and parents have never paid anything to get involved. Each week I cover a top female player and we analyse the game. Over the past year I have built up a large collection of games and tactics, which I felt could be published. It is the most up to date collection about women’s chess covering a variety of ages and levels. After just one year, I have over 360 girls across the UK signed up, and a further 150 beginners in our new beginners program. I hope this is just the beginning. 

Autor

Lorin D’Costa is a 36 year old International Master, born and living in London, England. He is the current England Women’s Coach,having been with the teams at the World Chess Olympiad in 2018 and the European Team Championships in 2019. He is a full time chess coach in London, where amongst his successes as a coach he has won the National UK Girls Under 11 and Under 19 Schools Championships every year with his schools for the past 5 years. He is the only coach to lead a girl’s only school to the National England Under 9 and Under 11 schools finals (top 8 schools in England) including boys. He has done this for 6 consecutive years. He is an England Junior International coach, with some of his pupils taking top 10 placing at World and European Youth Championships. On a personal level, his peak FIDE rating of 2485 (April 2009) placed him in the top 1000 in the world rankings, and he counts his best individual game as his win over Ian Nepomniachtchi, who challenged Magnus Carlsen for the World title in 2021.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thinkers Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 484
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 167mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 898g
• ISBN-13: 9789464201529
• ISBN-10: 9464201525
• Artikelnr.: 63696567