Queen for a Day: The Girl's Guide to Chess Mastery

By Lauren Goodkind

Queen For a Day: The Girl's Guide to Chess Mastery, is an instructional book that is written directly for girls and women. This book takes readers through a complete chess game against Sophia, a girl who has just learned how to move the chess pieces. In the book's game, players are asked to choose among a master level move, a good-okay move, and a third that is just plain bad. Then readers await Sophia's next move With this book, readers will learn to make smart moves in their own real-life chess games, too This book is edited by Woman International Master Alexey Root, 1989 US Women's Chess Champion. This book is proudly endorsed by: 1) Woman Grandmaster Jennifer Yu, the 2019 US Women's Chess Champion 2) Woman Grandmaster Jennifer Shahade, Two-time US Women's Chess Champion, Women's Program Director at US Federation, and popular author of several chess books3) FIDE Master James Eade, Author of "Chess For Dummies"4) Carey Fan, CEO of ChessKid5) National Master Elliott Neff, CEO of Chess4life and author of "A Pawn's Journey: Transforming Lives One Move at a Time"6) Grandmaster Melikset Khachiyan, US National Olympiad Chess Team Coach and Professional Chess Player7) Grandmaster Boris Avrukh, Renowned coach and popular author of several chess books8) Elizabeth Shaughnessy, Founder of Berkeley Chess School9) Abel Talamantez and Judit Sztaray, Mechanics' Institute Chess Club in San Francisco Lauren Goodkind, the author of this book, is a successful and self-employed woman chess teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area, who strives to inspire more girls and women to play chess. Lauren has been playing in United States Chess Federation (USCF) tournaments for over 20 years and is currently rated as a class A player, rated between 1800-2000. Some of Lauren's students have won major scholastic tournaments, including tournaments organized by Grandmaster Susan Polgar. When not teaching chess, Lauren enjoys playing tennis, crocheting, traveling, and more. Lauren's website is www.LaurenGoodkindChess.com.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0578504480
• ISBN13: 9780578504483
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Lauren Goodkind
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7