Ladies Knight with US Women's Open Champ Megan Lee [PODCAST]

Janelle Losoff

Megan Lee, 2019 U.S. Women's Open Champ, Photo Tim Hanks

Podcast (ladies-knight): Play in new window | Download | Subscribe by Email  Subscribe to Ladies Knight on Itunes here and on Android here.  The newest episode of Ladies Knight features host Jennifer Shahade in conversation with our new U.S. Women's Open Champion, Megan Lee. Jennifer interviews Megan live from the Las Vegas Chess Festival. Lee is a 22-year-old graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design. In her conversation with Jennifer, she explains why she calls herself a "maker", as well as a designer and photographer. Her projects have ranged from chairs to wallets to a chess set, and you can browse through her impressive portfolio at https://www.meleeproductions.com/.

Megan's chess set design

Megan is also a big fan of chess variants, and she talks to Jen about Seirawan Chess, Chess 960 and her favorite, bughouse. She even reveals the results of two bug games she played against World #2 Fabiano Caruana when he visited Rhode Island. Finally, Megan talks about her toughest game at the U.S. Women's Open, a victory against Claudia Munoz of Texas Tech University.

[pgn] [Event "U.S. Women's Open"] [Date "2019.06.12"] [White "Lee, Megan"] [Black "Munoz, Claudia"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C11"] [WhiteElo "2115"] [BlackElo "1806"] [PlyCount "89"] [EventDate "2019.??.??"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Be3 Be7 8. Qd2 a6 9. Be2 b5 10. a3 Bb7 11. O-O O-O 12. Nd1 cxd4 13. Nxd4 Nc5 14. Nf2 Rc8 15. b4 Nxd4 16. Bxd4 Ne4 17. Nxe4 dxe4 18. c3 Qd5 19. Qe3 f5 20. a4 Ra8 21. axb5 axb5 22. Ba7 Rfc8 23. Rfd1 Qc6 24. Rdc1 Bd8 25. Bc5 Rxa1 26. Rxa1 Ba6 27. g4 Bc7 28. Rd1 Re8 29. h4 Rd8 30. Rxd8+ Bxd8 31. g5 Qd5 32. Kf2 Kf7 33. Bh5+ g6 34. Be2 h5 35. Qd4 Bc7 36. Ke3 Qc6 37. Ba7 Bc8 38. Qc5 Bd7 39. Qxc6 Bxc6 40. Kd4 Be8 41. Kc5 Bxe5 42. fxe5 f4 43. Bxb5 Bxb5 44. Kxb5 e3 45. Kc4 1-0[/pgn]

This podcast was recorded live at the Las Vegas Chess Festival, right after the U.S. Women's Open concluded. Find full standings of all Festival Events, including the Women's Open and National Open here. Ladies Knight features music by the artist Juga, who went viral when her song, Oh Capablanca,dropped in the Fall of 2018. You can find more about Juga on https://www.jugamusica.com/    Find a full index of US Chess podcasts here. To support the podcast, subscribe and if you like it, rate five stars on Apple Podcasts and review. Consider a donation to advance our Women’s Programs at https://new.uschess.org/give/donate-online-women/. US Chess Sales has also recently unveiled a suite of new US Chess Women themed merchandise, which helps support US Chess Women.