When former U.S. ladies’s chess champion Jennifer Shahade alleged on social media final month that she had been sexually assaulted by a outstanding grandmaster named Alejandro Ramirez, she had no concept it could set off a broad wave of extra allegations.
Ms. Shahade says she was sexually assaulted twice by Mr. Ramirez, one of the crucial recognizable faces in American chess over the previous 20 years. Her allegations and others in recent times have been reported to high chess our bodies, together with the U.S. Chess Federation and the highly effective St. Louis Chess Membership, which did not act or successfully examine when first studying of them, in keeping with interviews and paperwork reviewed by The Wall Road Journal.