Jennifer Shahade

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Shahade in January 2002 during the
US Championships in Seattle
Surname Jennifer Shahade
Association United StatesUnited States United States
Born December 31, 1980
Philadelphia
title International Women's Champion (1999)
Women's Grandmaster (2005)
Current  Elo rating 2322 (November 2018)
Best Elo rating 2366 (April to September 2003)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Jennifer Shahade (born December 31, 1980 in Philadelphia ) is an American chess and poker player , trainer, commentator, official, blogger , game designer , artist, editor and author.

Life

She grew up in an academic household. Her father Mike Shahade is a FIDE master , her mother Sally Solomon († 2013) taught as a chemistry professor at Drexel University for almost four decades and her older brother Gregory Shahade (* 1978) is an international chess master . Both siblings were encouraged by their parents to lead a fulfilling and creative life in an individual, free way and, if possible, to develop more than just one source of income. Jennifer Shahade lives in Philadelphia, the city ​​of her birth and holds a degree in comparative literature from New York University .

chess

Shahade learned the game of chess from her father as a toddler and received her first Elo rating at the age of 15 . In December 1995 she took part in the U-18 youth world championship for girls in Guarapuava , Brazil (+3 = 2 −5), and in 1998 she won the US Junior Open - as the only woman to date. In September 1999, she competed in the Armenian capital Yerevan at the U-20 Women's Junior World Championship (+5 = 5 −2).

At the 2000 Istanbul Women's Chess Olympiad , she was part of the United States' squad. On the third board she achieved a very convincing performance (+7 = 1 −3). In January 2002 she played in Seattle for the US championship. This was held in a new format for the first time that year: the men's and women's championships were combined (but separate ratings were retained) so that man-woman pairings could also decide on the title. Shahade was in impressive form and managed to secure the women's title after nine rounds exclusively against male opponents (+3 = 4 −2). In the first round she beat Grandmaster Gennadij Sagalchik , later a draw followed against Grand Masters Sergei Kudrin , John Fedorowicz and Yasser Seirawan, among others . As a result, she had her first WGM and IM norm before the last round . A win against Alexander Stripunsky would have meant a shared third place in the combined ranking and a GM norm. However, they lost in an exciting final.

In the autumn of the same year she represented the US women's team in Bled, Slovenia at their second Chess Olympiad . There she played again on the third board (+6 = 0 −5) and fulfilled her second WGM standard. In January 2003 she shared first place in the national championships with Anna Hahn and Irina Krush and thus achieved her second IM and third WGM norm. Ultimately, Hahn won the title after a rapid chess decisive battle. Shahade played later in the year in Miami for her university at the Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship . At the beginning of 2004 she was again American champion and in May she was one of 64 players who competed in the Russian Elista in the knockout tournament of the women's world chess championship . However, Shahade had to admit defeat to Nana Dzagnidze from Georgia by ½: 1½ in the first round . A few months later, in October, she traveled to her third and so far last Chess Olympiad in Calvià in Spain. As a reserve player in the US women's team, she played two games (+0 = 1 −1) and won the silver medal in the team championship with her three teammates Zsuzsa Polgár , Irina Krush and Anna Zatonskih . In October 2005 she was named women's grandmaster. Since the Curaçao Festival in July 2005 , Shahade has not played an Elo-rated game and is therefore listed as inactive. Participation in the first World Thinking Sports Games in Beijing in October 2008 was not very successful for her . In both blitz (summarized: +8 = 2 −11) and rapid chess (summarized: +4 = 5 −8) she played for the women’s individual and team scores, but was not able to compete in any of the four disciplines place the medal ranks.

Outdoor chess on August 20, 2003 at London's Broadgate Center. Shahade plays with white against the Briton Alexandra Wilson. Michael Basman relaxes while sitting .

In 2006 the United States Chess Federation (USCF) hired Shahade as the online editor-in-chief to look after its website. She also regularly annotates games for the USCF. She is a board member of the St. Louis- based World Chess Hall of Fame and from 2009 to 2013 chaired the committee for the US Chess Championships, all of which were hosted by the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis during that time . In addition, Shahade gives lectures throughout the country (including at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Philadelphia Museum of Art ), plays international shows in simultaneous chess against up to 50 opponents (e.g. in Shanghai and Soweto ) and writes regularly for various media; Her articles have been published in the Los Angeles Times , The New York Times , the chess magazines Chess Life and New In Chess, and various chess-related websites.

Together with Jean Hoffman, Shahade founded the non-profit 9 Queens in October 2007 , which currently has programs in Philadelphia and Tucson . The aim is to advertise chess education and to make it available. The offers - lectures, regular exercise units and supervision - are aimed at disadvantaged young people and underrepresented population groups, especially girls and young people at risk. Everyone should have the same opportunities so that at least in chess they can fully exploit their potential. With the help of chess, the employees want to motivate, mentally strengthen and employ the children and young people in order to lay the foundation for personal and academic success. Sponsored by 9 Queens and After School Activities Partnership , Shahade also teaches monthly workshops for women at the Free Library of Philadelphia . For many years, Shahade has also taught students for the New York City- based non-profit Chess in the Schools .

In the United States Chess League , she played for the New York Knights in 2005 and 2006 , and for the Philadelphia Inventors in 2008 and 2009 .

Elo development

poker

Jennifer Shahade
  Personal information  
Nickname
jeniumPokerStars
place of residence United StatesUnited States Philadelphia
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 122,827
Total prize money $ 346,241
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 12
Best main event 204th ( 2016 )
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 1
Last updated: March 7, 2020

She learned the game of cards from her brother, who, in addition to his chess career, was also an online poker pro for eight years . Before “ Black Friday ” on April 15, 2011 - the closure of several online poker rooms in the US for alleged money laundering, illegal gambling and bank fraud - Jennifer Shahade also played mostly online poker and only took part in a few live events. She initially played sit and go and occasionally cash games . Her main focus was on No Limit Texas Hold'em . Over time, their interest in getting to know the other variants of the game grew . So she turned to Omaha Hold'em , Seven Card Stud and above all Chinese Poker and soon afterwards its variety, Open-face Chinese Poker , which inspired her. According to her own statements, she invested a lot of time in learning and deepening open-face strategies. She has an ambition to improve, but at the same time points out her numerous other commitments.

Since 2007, Shahade has been competing in World Series of Poker tournaments at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas ; In 2012 she played at eight such events. She won prizes a few times (almost 90,000 US dollars so far ) and in 2013 she won an open-face Chinese tournament at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Shahade writes irregularly for card players and poker players as well as several blogs and participated in the poker panel discussion at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas in September 2013 . Since 2014 she has been an ambassador for the online poker room PokerStars under the nickname jenium , and she also works as a trainer at RunItOnce.com .

Your poker podcast, The Grid , was named “Podcast of the Year 2019” with a Global Poker Award in March 2020 .

Art and games

Jennifer Shahade is also active as a freelance artist and has developed several new games and game variations. Based on the book Marcel Duchamp published in 2009 . The Art of Chess - for which she contributed the analysis of 15 games - she dealt more intensively with the painter and object artist , who is considered a co-founder of conceptual art and one of the companions of Dadaism and Surrealism . Inspired by a 1963 photograph by Julian Water , for which Duchamp and the undressed artist and author Eve Babitz (* 1943) pose playing chess in a Duchamp retrospective at the Norton Simon Museum , Shahade created the roughly two-minute film Naked Chess, for example . In this she plays a game of Duchamp against E. Smith, which took place in Hyères in 1928 . On the other hand, the moves that are carried out in her art arrangement Hulachess are based on a game played against the Romanian G. Davidescu in Paris in 1924 . Shahade and one of the opponents play on a board hanging freely from the ceiling while at the same time juggling "hula hoops" . While Duchamp lost the game, Shahade shows in the five-minute film that a better move in a key position would have led to perpetual chess. In 2010, the clip was selected from over 23,000 submissions as one of 125 for the online gallery of the first edition of the biennial creative video competition YouTube Play , which is organized in cooperation with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation . Both projects - Naked Chess and Hulachess - were created with the support of Daniel Meirom.

Together with Daniel Meirom and her brother, Shahade also created X Chess Championships , their own online reality show. She also posts artistic videos on the pokerfairytale.com website , which Meirom is also involved in producing.

Driven by curiosity, a fondness for mind games and the desire to popularize chess, she also designed some new game concepts. Chinese poker chess, for example, is a combination of the two games. Together with the artist and curator Larry List, she developed Roulette chess for the Chance Aesthetics show in St. Louis : The turning of a wheel determines which figure has to be drawn next. This is where the “luck” factor comes into play. This means that there is a higher probability that weaker opponents can win against stronger opponents, which otherwise rarely happens in chess.

Furthermore Shahade helped (often as a participant) in the organization of events in art galleries and museums - such as the New York Noguchi Museum , the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis , in the Saint Louis University Museum of Art , the Whitney Museum of American Art in the Kunstenaarssociëteit De Kring in Amsterdam, in the Viewing Room Gallery in New York, in the Haudenschild Garage in San Diego or in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis.

Publications

Web links

Commons : Jennifer Shahade  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jennifer Shahades results at the women's chess Olympiad on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ a b c WGM application to FIDE (English)
  3. ↑ Title conferred by the FIDE Presidential Board in October 2005 at FIDE (English)
  4. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
  5. ↑ Interview with Jennifer Shahade - Poker Player, Serial Chess Book Author & Chess Champion on pokerfacenews.com on November 11, 2013, accessed on November 29, 2014 (English).
  6. ↑ The Grindettes' Jennifer Shahade Talks Poker, Chess, and Being a Woman in Both Games on pokernews.com on December 18, 2012, accessed on November 29, 2014.
  7. ↑ Jennifer Shahade in the World Series of Poker database, accessed November 19, 2018.
  8. ↑ The Global Poker Awards 2019 are given on pokerfirma.com on March 7, 2020, accessed on March 7, 2020.
  9. ↑ The photo by Julian Wasser . Retrieved from toutfait.com on November 29, 2014.
  10. ↑ Official video for Naked Chess . Retrieved from youtube.com ( YouTube ) on November 29, 2014.
  11. ↑ Official video for Hulachess . Retrieved from youtube.com ( YouTube ) on November 29, 2014.
  12. ↑ All episodes of the X Chess Championships . Retrieved from youtube.com ( YouTube ) on November 29, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Shahade, Jennifer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chess and poker player, trainer, commentator, official, blogger, game designer, artist, editor and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia