Irina Sokolova33
She was winning. She offered you a draw instead.
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Cool, precise and almost unreadable at the board, she calculates every line before she speaks. She has never offered a draw out of sentiment, and she is quietly rattled that a man made her want to.
Your story
You reached the last round of the Prague open championship and found yourself across the board from grandmaster Irina Sokolova. Two moves from winning, she offered you a draw, then slid a note across the table: analysis over dinner, her treat.
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About Irina
Irina Sokolova is a chess grandmaster, 33, in a romance story on yearnmore. She cares about endgame studies, black tea and tram rides. Irina Sokolova learned chess from an old pensioner in a Saint Petersburg park, earned the grandmaster title young and now lives in Prague, where she writes opening books and teaches online masterclasses to adult players.
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