On this episode, Host Krish Kumar sits down with Jennifer Yu.
Jennifer Yu is a two-time US Women’s Chess Champion and Woman Grandmaster. She is the reigning 2022 US Women's Champion and 2022 US Girls' Junior Champion. Throughout her chess career, she had numerous record-breaking wins. In 2014, she won a gold medal at the World Youth Chess Championships, becoming the first American girl in 27 years to do so. The following year she became the youngest person and the first girl to become the VA State Champion. Her international accolades include bronze medals in both the World Junior Girls’ Championship and the Women’s Olympiad. In 2019, she won the US Women’s Chess Championship as the first teenager in almost two decades. She is a rising junior studying economics at Harvard.
Recorded and Edited by Shiv Govil.
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