Ladies Knight with Jen Shahade ft. Luciana Morales

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Luciana Morales, Photo by Karen Loza
Luciana Morales, Photo by Karen Loza

 

Jennifer welcomes Women’s International Master Luciana Morales to Ladies Knight. Luciana is a three-time Continental Champion, the first Peruvian woman to qualify for the Women’s World Champs and an Olympian captain and player.

Now hailing from Brownsville, Texas, Luciana works for chessable, where she was recently promoted to Classroom Manager. She goes by “Mom’s Gambit” on social media, where she explores balancing her passion for chess for her new role as a mother.

 

Luciana is a passionate advocate for empowering youth and bringing more girls and women into the game. Bringing this vision to life has taken her all over the World from Mexico to Spain to the US Chess Girls Club in Memphis, TN.

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Luciana Morales, , Devina Devagharan and Jen Shahade at the Memphis Nationals

 

Follow Luciana on twitter and Instagram, and look for her upcoming course on chessable in early 2023.

Ladies Knight features music by the artist Juga.  

Ladies Knight is the proud recipient of two Chess Journalist of the Year Awards in 2022, including Best Podcast, and Best Episode, with Anastasiya Rakhmangulova

“Ladies Knight” is a monthly US Chess podcast hosted by WGM Jennifer Shahade, two-time US Women’s Chess Champion, featuring female chess champions and leaders. Jennifer Shahade is the Women’s Program director at US Chess. Find out more about the program and the Women’s Initiative at uschesswomen.org, where you can make a donation.

Listen to the whole family of US Chess podcasts at https://new.uschess.org/podcasts or through the links below.


Cover Stories With Chess Life, Hosted By John Hartmann

Podcast website | iTunes | Spotify | Google Podcasts

One Move At A Time, Hosted By Dan Lucas

Podcast website | iTunes | Spotify | Google Podcasts

Ladies Knight, Hosted By Jen Shahade

Podcast website | iTunes | Spotify | Google Podcasts

Chess Underground, Hosted By Pete Karagianis

Podcast website | iTunes | Spotify | Google Podcasts


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     Think dollar bills...  and vulgar capitalism ..Any chess promo project without massive inclusion of women is dead on arrival......still do not get the message? Look in your wallet...it will talk to you.In one half century of  New Orleans Louisiana Paul Morphy memorial privately funded  absolutely free chess  tourneys($60,000) I absolutely refused to schedule any event without women entered.   Never.    Not in one thousand years.  Please forgive my dollar bill crudeness....And the cash register has been ringing in both hard times ,lean times and epic years.No women? You experience pro death and media indifference in a hurry. Forget  about family chess promo also.THIS IS THE REAL DEAL friends neighbors and countrymen.. ...   I  PERSONALLY APPROVE  US chess  rating for all Jude Acers world chess promo sidewalk events at ENVIE CHESS CAFE   only because a terrific competent  woman  with world class promo skills...Ms. Carol Meyer is executive director of the US Chess office...THE MONSTER JUDE ACERS  PRODUCTION- ABSOLUTELY FREE CHESS  INVADERS ENVIE CHESS CAFE   SIDEWALK CHESS  TOURNEY /12 GAMES IN 24 HOURS "TORNADO " MARATHON/ 1241 Decatur/New Orleans 'INVADERS' SIDEWALK  INVITATIONAL WITH 8 WILD CHILD  chess fans/ chess players from across the nation  playing  RIGHT ON THE SIDEWALK WITH STARTLED CARS AND PASSERSBY    OCTOBER 2-3,2022...yes in just 4 days...will be US CHESS rated by Envie chess cafe Monday-Thursday night   4 rated games tonight chess director /promo wizard Andrew Squitiro ..AND THIS IS absolutely .because Meyer is executive director period.   This is the real world.    Deal with it.                                                                                                                                                         Jude Acers/ (44 year old  Jude Acers world chess table)                     New Orleans. Louisiana 

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