The 2021 U.S. Chess Championships are underway and Irina Krush is back to defend her title.
Mario Tama/Getty Images, FILEKrush is an eight-time U.S. women's champion and the only female American grandmaster. She told ABC Audio's Perspective podcast that becoming a grandmaster is not easy.
"In my eyes, chess is definitely a sport," Krush said."It really does require a decent level of physical fitness because it is not as easy as it looks to concentrate at your full capacity [for] four or five or sometimes six hours." "It requires being exposed to better and better competition, so playing people that are better than you," Krush said."From the time I was a young girl, I was playing adults, and that certainly helped me improve. Going to tournaments, traveling domestically [then] later on internationally. And you know, when you make that your life, you will see results."
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