Jennifer Shahade

Jennifer Shahade is an American chess player, poker player, commentator and writer, born on 31 December 1980 in Philadelphia. She is a two-time United States Women's Champion, winning in 2002 and 2004, and holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster. In 1998 she became the first woman to win the U.S. Junior Open. She has written books including Chess Bitch, Play Like a Girl and Chess Queens, and served as Women's Program Director at the United States Chess Federation from 2018 to 2023. She co-founded the chess non-profit 9 Queens in 2007, became MindSports Ambassador for PokerStars in 2014, and hosts the poker podcast the GRID, which won a Global Poker Award in 2019.