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Jennifer Shahade

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Thinking Sideways, my new book, is my intellectual hug to readers. 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 try to plan ten moves, or ten years ahead.

I am a three-time National Chess Champion--I won the US Women's Championship twice and was the first female to win the US Junior Open. I've also won poker tournaments all over the World from Prague to London to Las Vegas to my hometown Philadelphia.

I'm the author of several books including Chess Bitch / Chess Queens, and my upcoming Thinking Sideways: How to Think Like a Chessplayer and Win at Life.

I'm open to book club invites online, or irl in NYC or Philly--or when I'm on the road :)
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Chess Queens: The True Stor...

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Chess Bitch: Women In The U...

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Thinking Sideways: How to T...

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Play Like a Girl!

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Play Like a Champion

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"At once personal and philosophical, Shahade demonstrates both her depth of understanding and her breadth of research. Every chapter gave me exciting ideas for how to teach my chess students more holistically, spending time making them aware of their " Read more of this review »
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"I couldn’t put this book down! I rushed through it in two days, wanting the next sentence before finishing the one before it. As a chess player, it gave a clear vocabulary to concepts I’ve always sensed were important but could never quite put into w" Read more of this review »
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"Thinking Sideways uses chess as a way to understand how the best decision-makers in the world think...and how the rest of us can too. This is a strategy book that's practical. I love her insights on how elite chess players think and how that can appl" Read more of this review »
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"As a chess fan I loved all the insights into chess culture and thinking in this book, as I expected, but I also enjoyed it for a bunch of other reasons: the range of references to fascinating details drawn from art history, science, sports, high tech" Read more of this review »
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