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Title: Book and Author Praised in London
Review: I was recently in London and had the great pleasure of hearing Marilyn Yalom speak at the British Museum on her book "Birth of the Chess Queen." She was invited by the British Museum medieval curator who lavishly praised her book during his introduction to her talk. Thus I was shocked by the uninformed Amazon reviewer from London questioning Yalom's scholarship. It seems as if the British chess crowd (all male) can't accept the idea of a woman invading their territory, and especially one advancing the theory that the chess queen was put on the board because of living queens and the growth of female power. The book is an extraordinarily accomplished feat of scholarship and of writing. Its prose is sparkling and I doubt if I will ever pick up a chess queen without thinking of how it came to be born and how it matured into the powerful force it is today.`
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