Jennifer invites a very special guest to Ladies Knight: International Memory Grandmaster, Yanjaa Wintersoul. Yanjaa, the first woman to become a Memory World Champion, talks about how memory tricks apply to games, life and feminism. Yanjaa and Jennifer have a broad-ranging discussion on creative memory, spaced repetition and pattern recognition. They also touch on memory techniques (see Greg Shahade’s referenced article here) and Jeopardy!, a show that Jennifer recently hosted the Chess, Masters category. 

A longer version of this interview appeared on the GRID. 

Find out more about Yanjaa on her website, www.wintersoul.org and @Yanjaa www.instagram.com/yanjaa/

Ladies Knight features music by the artist Juga. 

Find out more about host Jennifer Shahade on her website and find her books, Chess Queens and Play Like a Girl, at US Chess Sales, where signed copies are currently available.