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Chess content and memes | #chesspunks | #1.b3 and #teamscandi | @Hammer_chess member | Performance coaching on @BenjiPortheault
Mar 27, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The amazing Women Chess player you've never heard of: Miss Fatima. thread 1/ Fatima arrives in England from Punjab with Sir Umar and Sultan Khan (already a great Chess champion). She learns the rules of chess at 20, in 1932 after a year of playing scores 6.5/11 at the British Champ, and a year later absolutely MOPS UP the opposition with 10.5/11 2/5
Dec 25, 2019 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Amazing article in @EuropeEchecs about Isabelle Strauch-Choko, concentration camp survivor turned chess player and who became women French Champion in 1955. Here my mini review of the article, which is emotional and charged with history. Thread 👇 1/7 Image She is 11 in 1939 when Germany invades Poland and 160000 people are locked in the Lodz ghetto (Jews, gypsies, homosexuals) Isabelle has to work hard and her dad dies from hard work and poor conditions 2/7