Oct 12, 2026 · 1 hr 49 min · 12 segments
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You were like a prodigy, to put it this way, right? And you got this amazing improvement as a teenager already.
And you were on the very top level and fighting in the World Cup in Elista, right? You actually lost to Katerina Lano.
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.
I also want to show some positions because I found some of the games really instructive and very well annotated, by the way.
Yeah, so the whole process was actually very long because I started writing these in 2022.
Gilt had given me the idea of writing about these and I am someone who... not only overthinks things, but also like takes a long time because I want to make sure that it's the best as it can be.
And of course, this has a lot of positive things, but also negative aspects.
I think it was very instructive for myself because I think like most of the readers, most of the chess community, I wasn't very knowledgeable about the Women's World Champions.
When I was studying, when I was reading, when I was consuming all the material related to chess as I could, I was, you know, going through games by world champions.
And there was, of course, a lot of material related to Steinitz and all of the successors.
You were like a prodigy, to put it this way, right? And you got this amazing improvement as a teenager already.
And you were on the very top level and fighting in the World Cup in Elista, right? You actually lost to Katerina Lano.
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.
I also want to show some positions because I found some of the games really instructive and very well annotated, by the way.
Yeah, so the whole process was actually very long because I started writing these in 2022.
Gilt had given me the idea of writing about these and I am someone who... not only overthinks things, but also like takes a long time because I want to make sure that it's the best as it can be.
And of course, this has a lot of positive things, but also negative aspects.
I think it was very instructive for myself because I think like most of the readers, most of the chess community, I wasn't very knowledgeable about the Women's World Champions.
When I was studying, when I was reading, when I was consuming all the material related to chess as I could, I was, you know, going through games by world champions.
And there was, of course, a lot of material related to Steinitz and all of the successors.
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