Greg Shahade

Her father is a Christian Lebanese and her mother is Jewish. In , she won the U. Women's Chess Championship in Seattle, Washington.

At the next U. Women's Championship she earned her second International Master norm, and in , she won her 2nd U. Women's Chess Championship. Shahade lives in Philadelphia and has earned a degree in comparative literature at New York University.

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Notify me of new comments via email. They can affect every other workout you do for the rest of the year.

In my opinion, redoing the workouts in the CrossFit Open fits into the CrossFit ethos of constantly varied and intense movement.

The variance this time is we are actually going to do the same workout shortly after originally doing it, which is something we almost never do.

In the first two Open workouts of I have repeated and in both cases have learned something extremely valuable, either about pacing or about myself.

Beginning on an 8-minute clock, complete as many reps as possible of: 25 toes-to-bars 50 double-unders 15 squat cleans, lb. If completed before 8 minutes, add 4 minutes to the clock and proceed to: 25 toes-to-bars 50 double-unders 11 squat cleans, lb.

In I did this workout a few times and finished with 2 cleans at In we did it in a regular class and I was able to get 6 cleans at I was aiming this year to at least get 6 cleans again, and hopefully be able to do better.

With the above strategy I got to the lb cleans at The first round of T2B were a total mess. I did 15 reps, then some random mishmash of singles and doubles.

The lb cleans went well at first, but then I started massively slowing down, and sometimes taking seconds in between reps on the later ones.

The next set of T2B was a mess, I did 5 reps, and then started going to singles and doubles right away.

I ended up finishing with 6 cleans, tying my score from I was relatively satisfied with my score. However I started to think something was really amiss when I screwed around later in the day and tried a few sets of 5 T2B, followed by 5 second rest.

It seemed like I got through 15 and still had a lot of energy to burn. I felt calm and relaxed, and I thought that maybe this is a strategy I should try.

Will it work or not? Who knows. But if it does work, it could completely change how I approach future T2B workouts. The difference between this strategy and the first one was simply massive.

I felt so much better, and had a tiebreak time of , over 45 seconds faster, as though just tinkering with a few things transformed me into someone who was much more fit.

The T2B felt great. I managed to get a clean three sets of 5 in on the second round, before I had to resort to singles and doubles.

The lb squat cleans were smooth and consistent with the set 3 second break. I managed to hit 10 cleans at lbs in the 2ish minutes I had remaining, which left me 3 cleans away from the next round and a massively improved score from my first attempt.

However on the second set I intentionally stopped around rep 37 and rested ten seconds. In retrospect this seemed unnecessary. I decided I really wanted to get to the third round, and so I took a third attempt at the workout, to see if there were any more things I could learn about myself.

I also had a super busy day and could have made lots of excuses not to do it. Here was my plan for attempt Once again everything worked perfectly.

It turned out the rest on the double unders was completely unnecessary. Although I did trip once each round, but picked things back up quickly in both cases.

The second round of T2B was MUCH smoother because I kind of knew where I would run into trouble and was mentally prepared to fight through that moment.

I got to the cleans this time with a tiebreak time of , a full 25 seconds faster than my second attempt and about ! I wish I could say the story had a happy ending, but I only managed 11 cleans, and still came up short on the third round.

But I learned so much by redoing this workout multiple times. I learned that:. Chess is broken. A game can be broken and still be popular, entertaining and beautiful.

Chess is still a beautiful game, and is even growing in popularity. What we are doing to this game by refusing to make any changes is terrible.

These are just standard changes that are made to the game to make it more interesting or fix it because something about it is broken.

There are so many things that are not ideal about chess, that the chess community refuses to address due to adherence for tradition, lineage and an obsession with sitting in the same spot for 6 hours.

Magnus Carlsen himself, the World Champion of Chess and number 1 player in the world, even admits it in his latest interview. They are dinosaurs and are making a mockery of what a game should be.

You play one game at 90 minutes plus a 20 second increment. The winner gets 10 points the loser gets 0. If that game is drawn you reverse colors and play one game at 20 minutes plus a 10 second increment.

The winner gets 7 points and the loser gets 3. If that game is drawn you keep the same colors as the rapid game and play one game at 5 minutes plus a 3 second increment.

The winner gets 6 points and the loser gets 4. If this game is drawn, both players get 5 points. A perfect mix of Classical, Rapid and Blitz. The Classical game is still worth 5 times as much as the blitz game.

The Classical game is worth 2. The rapid game is worth 2 times as much as the blitz game. But all the games count, and all forms of chess count.

Every single player will need to be equally versed at Classical, Rapid and Blitz chess to consider themselves the best in the world.

The best overall chess player will almost always win handily with such a format. Right now everyone is so good at the top and the draw rate is so high, that most matches with absurdly long time controls are going to end with the majority draws and maybe one or two wins sprinkled in.

I think that Fischer Random is also a great idea, but there is something beautiful about the starting position in chess, so I decided to retain that chess tradition in favor of simply speeding up the time controls.

But Fischer Random has the added benefit that Computer Preparation is rendered almost meaningless. The chess community needs to wake up.

The World Championship was just all draws. The one before it was 10 out of 12 draws. The idea of making the match even longer so that eventually someone wins is ridiculous.

Chess Trust to the top U. He was the founder and Commissioner of the U. Chess League, which folded in His sister is Woman Grandmaster Jennifer Shahade.

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