Inside the cutthroat world of women's professional chess

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Inside the cutthroat world of women's professional chess https://www.mic.com/p/inside-the-cutthroat-world-of-womens-professional-chess-21806074

Inside the cutthroat world of women's professional chess

To observe the Cairns Cup, an elite invitational women’s chess tournament that takes place in St. Louis, Missouri, I had to surrender my phone. A security guard checked my bag for “grenades” (his words, not mine) and wanded me down with a metal…

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