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2009 Sponsorships

Sponsor of Prizes for Chess Femmes, Hales Corners Chess Challenge X (a USCF Grand Prix Event), October 17, 2009. Additional prizes for chess femmes provided by GM Alexandra Kosteniuk!

Sponsor of the Goddesschess Fighting Chess Award, 2009 U.S. Women's Chess Championship, October 3-13, 2009

Sponsor of Class Prizes for Chess Femmes and financial support, 2009 Montreal Open Chess Championships, September 11-13, 2009

Sponsor of Chess Femme Prizes, Hales Corners Chess Challenge IX (a USCF Grand Prix Event) May, 2009

Recommended Reading (Goddess Approved)

"1421: The Year China Discovered America", Gavin Menzies
"A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art and Science", Michael S. Schneider
"A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess", H.J.R. Murray
"A History of Chess", H.J.R. Murray
"Archaeology and Language", Colin Renfrew
"Birth of the Chess Queen", Marilyn Yalom
"Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, Vols. I and II", R.C. Bell
"Breaking Through: How the Polgar Sisters Changed the Game of Chess", Susan Polgar
"Chess Bitch: Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Sport", Jennifer Shahade
"Curse of Kirsan: Adventures in the Chess Underworld", Sarah Hurst
"Games of the North American Indians", Stewart Culin
"How I Became A Grandmaster At Age 14", Alexandria Kosteniuk
"In All Her Names: Exploration of the Feminine in Divinity", Joseph Campbell and Charles Muses
"In Search of the Indo-Europeans", J.P. Mallory
"Linares! Linares! A Journey into the Heart of Chess", Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam
"Master Pieces", Gareth Williams
"Nefertiti", Evelyn Wells
"Searching for Bobby Fischer", Fred Waitzkin
"Secret Games of the Gods: Ancient Ritual Systems in Board Games", Nigel Pennick
"Sex with Kings", Eleanor Herman
"Silver Queen", Maria Ivanka
"Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid: Window on the Universe", Bonnie Gaunt
"Symbol & Magic in Egyptian Art", Richard H. Wilkinson
"The Art of Chess Pieces", I. M. (Isaac) Linder
"The Art of Chess", Colleen Schafroth
"The Coming of the Greeks", Robert Drews
"The Eight", Katherine Neville
"The Fire", Katherine Neville
"The Genealogy of Chess", David H. Li
"The Goddess and the Bull", Michael Balter
"The Golden Bough", Sir James George Frazer
"The Great Mortality", John Kelly
"The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype", Erich Neumann
"The Immortal Game: A History of Chess", David Shenk
"The Language of the Goddess", Marija Gimbutas
"The Life and Games of Bobby Fischer", Frank Brady
"The Living Goddess", Marija Gimbutas
"The Magic Circle", Katherine Neville
"The Mummies of Urumchi", Elizabeth Wayland Barber
"The Origin of Language", Merritt Ruhlen
"The Oxford Companion to Chess", David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld
"The Polgar Sisters: Training or Genius?", Cathy Forbes
"The White Goddess", Robert Graves
"The Women's Room", Marilyn French
"Warrior Women", Jeannine Davis-Kimball
"Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth and Society in Early Times", Elizabeth Wayland Barber