Chess, Goddess and Everything: Hales Corners Chess Challenge X!

Monday, October 19, 2009

Hales Corners Chess Challenge X!

More photos of the ladies in action! Robert Shockley v. Sandra Pahl

Brian MacLeish v. Isabella Ilchenko

Jonathan Hildeman v. Nicole Niemi

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2010 Sponsorships

Hales Corners Challenge XI
October 16, 2010
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA
Open and Reserve Prizes for Chess Femmes

2010 Montreal Open Chess Championship
September 10-12, 2010
Montreal, Quebec CANADA
Class Prizes for Chess Femmes

2010 U.S. Women's Chess Championship
July 9 - 19, 2010
St. Louis, Missouri USA
Co-sponsor of $1,000 Fighting Chess Award with 9 Queens!

Playtex Moonwalk for Breast Cancer
May 15, 2010
London, England UNITED KINGDOM
Show-Time Themed Costumes provided for Four Fabulous Show Girls walking 5K to raise funds: Tracy, Hayley, Emily and Lynn

Hales Corners Challenge XI
April 17, 2010
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA
Open and Class Prizes for Chess Femmes

Computer Labs for Kids
Donation to support Training and Laptops for 20 Kids in Foster Care
February 6, 2010
Los Angeles, California USA

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