{"id":13064,"date":"2023-02-22T12:47:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T12:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/?p=13064"},"modified":"2023-02-22T12:47:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T12:47:21","slug":"poker-and-chess-pro-jennifer-shahade-accuses-chess-grandmaster-alejandro-ramirez-of-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/poker-and-chess-pro-jennifer-shahade-accuses-chess-grandmaster-alejandro-ramirez-of-sexual-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Poker and Chess Star Accuses Chess Grandmaster Of Sexual Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/jennifer-shahade-accuses-alejandro-ramirez-of-sexual-assault.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Shahade accuses Alejandro Ramirez of Sexual Assault\" width=\"300\" title=\"Poker and Chess Pro Jennifer Shahade Accuses Chess Grandmaster Alejandro Ramirez Of Sexual Assault\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13065\" \/><strong>Summary<\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Poker pro Shahade alleged that Ramirez sexually assaulted her twice, 9 and 10 years ago<\/li>\n<li>Ramirez is currently being investigated for sexual assault; some of the incidents involved minors<\/li>\n<li>US Chess Foundation launched investigation into Ramirez  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Jennifer Shahade<\/strong> is a prominent figure in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/us\/legal-us-online-poker-sites\">US poker<\/a> and worldwide. She is currently part of team PokerStars Pro and also serves as an ambassador for the women-focused poker organization <strong>Poker Power<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Apart from being a successful poker pro, Shahade is also an accomplished <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/sports-betting\/chess\">chess<\/a> player. She was the first female winner of the <em>U.S. Junior Open<\/em> and is also a two-time <em>U.S. Women\u2019s Chess champion<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>But behind all her achievements was a traumatic past. Shahade recently revealed <strong>she was a victim of sexual misconduct and assault<\/strong>. And the alleged culprit was no other than chess Grandmaster <strong>Alejandro Ramirez<\/strong> who is currently under investigation over similar allegations.<\/p>\n<h2>Playing Poker while Dealing with Trauma<\/h2>\n<p>Based on her <a href=\"https:\/\/pokerdb.thehendonmob.com\/player.php?a=r&#038;n=85543\">Hendon Mob profile<\/a>, Shahade\u2019s first live poker tournament record came in 2007, three years after she won her second U.S. Women\u2019s Chess Championship. <\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old now has over $460,000 in total live cash, and her biggest live tournament victory so far happened in 2014 when she took down the <em>\u20ac10,000 TonyBet Open Face Chinese Pineapple High Roller Event<\/em> at the Prague Poker Festival for $122,827. It was in the same year that she was sexually assaulted allegedly by Ramirez, for the second time. The first incident happened 10 years ago, according to Shahade.<\/p>\n<p>Shahade said she had chosen to move on silently from those painful experiences until the past couple of years when several women approached her to share their own stories of abuse at the hands of Ramirez. The PokerStars ambassador and board member of the <strong>World Chess Hall of Fame<\/strong> said some of the victims were minors and there\u2019s evidence to prove it. <\/p>\n<p>Shahade exposed Ramirez in a lengthy post on Twitter on February 15. Two days later, the poker pro and women\u2019s chess champ said more women have since reached out to her to say they\u2019ve also been sexually assaulted by Ramirez.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Time\u2019s up. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ItOv73lTX7\">pic.twitter.com\/ItOv73lTX7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jennifer Shahade (@JenShahade) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenShahade\/status\/1625873098581983232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<h2>An Open Secret<\/h2>\n<p>Ramirez\u2019s misconduct seems to be an open secret in the chess community, with some claiming they have known about it as early as 2010. One commenter said the Costa Rican American chess Grandmaster was \u201c<em>grabbing underage girls<\/em>\u201d and messaging them at chess camps.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer\u2019s brother <strong>Greg Shahade<\/strong> also said he already informed authorities about it a long time ago but the allegations are only being investigated now.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>St Louis Chess Club<\/strong> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/new.uschess.org\/news\/us-chess-statement-recent-allegations\"><strong>US Chess Foundation<\/strong><\/a> have launched separate inquiries into the matter and Ramirez said he is fully cooperating with both investigations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Poker pro Shahade alleged that Ramirez sexually assaulted her twice, 9 and 10 years ago Ramirez is currently being investigated for sexual assault; some of the incidents involved minors US Chess Foundation launched investigation into Ramirez Jennifer Shahade is a prominent figure in US poker and worldwide. 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