Chess lecture irina krush biography

GM and seven-time US Women's Chess Champion Irina Krush keeps everyone guessing. She first shocked the American chess community in 1998, when she swept the U.S.

Women's chess championship 8.5/9 to become the youngest ever U.S. champion. In 2001, she was the lowest rated player invited to the Mayor's Cup, an international round robin held in New York City. She won first place and also earned her first Grandmaster norm.

Irina also won four US Women's titles in Saint Louis in a row in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

GM Krush has been lauded not just for her illustrious career as a chess player, but also for her skills as a speaker as demonstrated in her.

Irina Krush is a seven-time U.S. Women's Champion, winning in , , , , , , and She holds the record for the youngest player to win.

Krush is an eight-time U.S. women's chess champion and the only current active female American Grandmaster.

Woman Grandmaster; International Master (); Grandmaster ().

Grandmaster Irina Krush will play 35 simultaneous matches at Ocean County College on Toms River after giving a free lecture.

A well-rounded player, Irina wins in both technical endgames and with brilliant attacks. She is known to be stubborn both on and off the board. If she feels her opponent has violated a basic chess principle, she'll search ardently for punishment and often find it. 

In 2013, Irina earned her final GM norm at the Baku Open. She wrote an in-depth account of her result for CLO and concluded: "The result was beautiful, but as you can see, it wasn't