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Jennifer Shahade

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Born

in Philadelphia, The United States

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https://jennifershahade.com/

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Nonfiction, Self Help, History

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February 2008

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As a National chess and poker champion, I help you build confidence and make better decisions.

My latest book, Thinking Sideways, outlines crucial cognitive skills that apply to life and chess, like memory, time management and decision making, and shows how you can cultivate these same abilities even if you don't play games.

The key point is this: You don't have to have things figured out. Like a great chess player, it's more important to Think Sideways and look at all the options than to plan ten moves, or ten years, ahead.

Find me everywhere @jenshahade or at "See the Sideways Move": https://jenshahade.substack.com/

Reach out with book club invites or media and speaking inquiries to jenshahadeteam@gmail.com

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Average rating: 4.13 · 483 ratings · 85 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time 4.14 avg rating — 228 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chess Bitch: Women In The Ultimate Intellectual Sport 3.95 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thinking Sideways: How to Think Like a Chess Player and Win at Life 4.29 avg rating — 76 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Play Like a Girl! 4.50 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Play Like a Champion it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chess Queens 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sinquefield Cup: Celebrating Five Years 2013-2017 by Yasser Seirawan, Maurice Ashley, Alejandro Ramírez it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Jennifer Shahade liked Talia's review of Play Like a Champion: "Rewiews of so many amazing game by some of the best Chess Queens - love it! Great way to improve chess skills. "
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Residency Review is a stunning and brave work that I read in a single sitting. It combines poetry and documents in a powerful sequence that allows you to relate to the pain of institutional failure, and SA, as well as the joys and challenges of mothe ...more
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Jennifer Shahade and 7 other people liked Mary Keating's review of Residency Review: A Memoir in Verse: "Recipient of not one, but two scholarships, and a lover of poetry to her core, Katie Dozier enrolls in a low-residency MFA program “with enough hope to water/the whole garden—to populate Pacific/with the blooms of poems.” But then her hopes begin to w" Read more of this review »
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Jennifer Shahade and 2 other people liked Mark Danowsky's review of Residency Review: A Memoir in Verse: "An important and powerful book. Truly a must-read! TW: sexual assault "
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Jennifer Shahade and 2 other people liked Kim's review of Residency Review: A Memoir in Verse: "Impressive use of haibun and haiku forms to tell a very difficult story. The chimes of so many rhyming couplets reminds us of the hope in writing poetry—that it can true up the frayed ends of things. This memoir told though poems reminds us with its " Read more of this review »
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Residency Review is a stunning and brave work that I read in a single sitting. It combines poetry and documents in a powerful sequence that allows you to relate to the pain of institutional failure, and SA, as well as the joys and challenges of mothe ...more
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I follow AttorneyRyan on social media so I was excited when I saw he was writing a book. Did not disappoint, as he gives the basics of labor law in a digestible and entertaining format grounded by his backstory. In his 20s, author Ryan was a firefigh ...more
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