Vera Menchik

You know, it's actually incredible, guys.

She's very strong, she's a very strong player, Luciana And you can even see that when it comes to this course of yours Because I got it myself, I also gifted a friend of mine recently To also brush up my knowledge about women's world champions Queens of the chessboard Please tell us, Luciana, what was the process like for you? Or did you learn something surprising in this project? You start from the very first world champion, Vera Menchik, until Nona Gabindashvili, right? You cover those five world champions.

Tell us about the background, maybe, like how you started it, any surprising results.

Maybe in the end we can even show some positions, either right now or maybe at the very end of our talk.

chess with sacrificial ideas yeah

yes but maybe you know those sacrifices didn't really um Like Tal, they were a bit obscure, but they worked out in the end.

And Vera Menchik also I found particularly inspiring because I'm mostly a player who enjoys positional chess.

And I felt that a lot of her games reflected a very... nice, deep positional understanding, which shouldn't be a surprise because actually one of her mentor figures was Gesa Maddoxi.