Jen Shahade Meets Ladies Knight Guest Isabelle Choko (PODCAST)
Ladies Knight host Jennifer Shahade had the opportunity this Winter to meet an epic guest: Holocaust Survivor and 1956 French Women’s Chess Champion Isabelle Choko.
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Ladies Knight host Jennifer Shahade had the opportunity this Winter to meet an epic guest: Holocaust Survivor and 1956 French Women’s Chess Champion Isabelle Choko.
Two-time US Women's Champion Jennifer Shahade has often championed women's chess in the past. After "Chess Bitch" she has now published another book on women's chess, "Chess Queens". Tatiana Flores has taken a look at it. | Photo: Courtesy Jennifer Shahade
€29.90 By Georges Bertola It was Philippe Pierlot (Vive les échecs! Ed. Olibris) who first drew my attention to this extraordinary woman. During the last Paris Grand Chess Tour, a Parisian player, Emmanuel Delhoume, proposed a meeting with Isabelle Choko. I went to Boulogne with GM Bachar Kouatly. It was a poignant and moving meeting with a lady, cultured, dynamic, mischievous and, despite a very painful past, she remains confident in the future. It was a salutary lesson in life such as one receives only too rarely. Emmanuel Delhoum, Bachar Kouatly, Isabelle Choko et Ge...