Overview
This book contains games from every singlefemale World Champion, as well as young up and comers, top seasonedprofessionals, streamers, and even a section at Beth Harmon from the recent famedQueen'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 chesshistory, 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 realreason- my UK Girls chess project called 'She Plays To Win' (SPTW). This group has officially been going sinceApril 11th 2020. I had the idea even a few years before, but I wasnot sure how it could be set up. The unfortunate events of worldwide lock-downprovided the answer, as the switch to being online allowed me to offer zoomlessons 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 andwe analyse the game. Over the past year I have built up a large collection ofgames and tactics, which I felt could be published. It is the most up to datecollection about women's chess covering a variety of ages and levels. After just one year, I have over 360 girlsacross the UK signed up, and a further 150 beginners in our new beginnersprogram. I hope this is just the beginning.
Full Product Details
Author: Lorin D'Costa
Publisher: Thinkers Publishing
Imprint: Thinkers Publishing
Edition: New edition
ISBN: 9789464201529
ISBN 10: 9464201525
Pages: 484
Publication Date: 20 May 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Author Information
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.
