LittleHouseofChess

Gisela Kahn Gresser holds the record for the most U.S. Women’s Championships won: nine titles between 1944 and 1969. Born in Detroit, she learned the game in her late thirties. During a cruise from France to New York in the late 1930s, she borrowed a chess manual from a fellow passenger and taught herself how to play during the seven-day voyage. By the time she arrived, she was hooked on the game, and shortly afterward, she attended the first U.S. Women’s Chess Championship tournament as a spectator, organized by Caroline Marshall (wife of U.S. Champion Frank Marshall) and held at Rockefeller Center in New York City. She participated herself two years later, in 1940, and in 1944, at 38 years old (and seven years after learning how to play), she won her first U.S. title with a perfect score. #USchess #womeninchess

Brewington Hardaway (🇺🇸 2522) vs Fidel Corrales (🇺🇸 2519), playing some blitz after the closing ceremony of the @elllobregatopen. Clearly 10 rounds (plus a tie-break match for @IMBrewChess) was not enough 😄