tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49888191775233454002024-03-13T12:08:23.696-05:00Goddesschess"Despite the documented evidence of chess historian H.J.R. Murray, I have always thought that chess was invented by a goddess."
George Koltanowski, from Women in Chess, Players of the Modern GameJanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.comBlogger6840125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-35238665538960587692023-10-05T22:06:00.005-05:002023-10-05T22:06:45.602-05:002023 U.S. Women's Chess ChampionshipInformation from U.S. Chess Champs:Pairings round 1 ()TableWhiteScoreRatingBlackScoreRatingResult1IM Paikidze, Nazi0.02316FM Eswaran, Ashritha0.022731-02IM Zatonskih, Anna0.02363WGM Pourkashiyan, Atousa0.02288½-½3FM Yan, Ruiyang0.02206FM Cervantes Landeiro, Thalia0.02303½-½4GM Krush, Irina0.02437IM Yip, Carissa0.02372½-½5FM Yu, Jennifer0.02294WGM Abrahamyan, Tatev0.02262½-½6FM Lee, Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-2056538985493718972023-10-04T09:52:00.003-05:002023-10-04T09:52:33.733-05:002023 U.S. Chess Championship and 2023 U.S. Women's Chess Championship Hola!Not interested in the 2023 U.S. Chess Championship as there are no female players.The 2023 U.S. Women's Chess Championship is in focus once again. Round 1 of the event starts on October 5, 2023. You can watch the event live at the U.S. Chess Champs website. Eleven rounds ending October 17, 2023.The players:GM Irina Krush (2488) - 8 time U.S. Women's Chess ChampionIM Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-2729352567387893642023-10-04T09:15:00.002-05:002023-10-04T09:15:46.089-05:00Hales Corners Chess Challenge XXXIIIHola! The 33rd Hales Corners Chess Challenge, sponsored by the Southwest Chess Club, took place on September 30, 2023. There were 103 entries of which 18 women/girls participated (4 in the Open and 14 in the Reserve). You can view the full results/ranking for all players at the U.S. Chess Federation website. I don't know why I can't find some of the female Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-46447433527119122942023-09-22T14:12:00.004-05:002023-09-22T14:12:43.981-05:00More Info on the Hales Corners Chess Challenge XXXIIIHola! Just after I'd posted the previous info on the upcoming Hales Corners Chess Challenge XXXIII, an email arrived with concise information so I copied it and here it is, clean and concise:Hales Corners Challenge XXXIII, September 30, 2023 Hales Corners Challenge XXXIIISponsored by The Southwest Chess Club http://Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-77987984920730590442023-09-22T13:58:00.001-05:002023-09-22T13:58:13.343-05:00Hales Corners Challenge XXXIII!Hola darlings!Happy Autumnal Equinox - or whatever it's called. Sorry I haven't been around lately, but I've been busy with the garden beds, lawn upkeep, and since we hit a record temperature a few weeks back of 129 degrees F on the "heat index" (you know, what the heat actually feels like when you think you're on fire but you're not because you don't see any flames on your body), I haven't been Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-48417731774968876432023-08-17T22:24:00.004-05:002023-08-17T22:24:57.558-05:00And I'm Still Here After All These Years - Darlings! WTF is FIDE Doing?Hola from Milwaukee. The rumors of my premature departure from blogging - well, not so wrong. But...I am turning 72 year old on August 19th darlings. Give me a break! I don't have the energy I used to although the drive and the mind are still there. Don't you know what the New Testament scripture by a certain so and so Apostle said about "the soul is willing but the body Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-22268523490173936712023-05-12T13:21:00.002-05:002023-05-12T13:21:30.445-05:00I'm Still Standing After All These Years! Brief UpdateHola! I just had to drop by to let you know what I saw today in the news. The Moscow Times has published an article about the Russian government building an American Ex-Pat village outside of Moscow for future immigrants. Here is a link to the article published on May 11, 2023 titled "Russia to Build 'Migrant Village' for Conservative American Expats," no reporter/author Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-66166163975046816202022-04-18T14:05:00.002-05:002022-04-18T14:05:58.997-05:00St. Louis Chess Club Hosting The 2022 American Cup Hola darlings! It's snowing/raining here today. It's ONLY April 18, 2022 and Spring evidently doesn't intend to appear in Milwaukee this year since it decided to make an appearance during the last part of November and the first part of December 2021. She can be rather temperamental, Ms. Spring. Soon to start, the 2022 American Cup hosted by the St. Louis Chess Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-72496390339869365252022-04-01T13:31:00.001-05:002022-04-01T13:31:32.864-05:002022 - 15th Annual Grand Pacific Chess Open (Victoria, BC) Hola! So pleased to see one of the tournaments that Goddesschess has sponsored women's prizes for many years is once again going to be ON - in person over the board, hooray! The tournament will be held at The Grand Pacific Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia (Canada). Quick Note: For this event only Goddesschess is also sponsoring additional prizes forJanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-64211703785082722722022-04-01T12:09:00.003-05:002022-04-01T12:09:55.597-05:00Throwing Over the Chessboard - An Analogy for Our TimesWhen I saw this article (an opinion piece) at The New York Times today, I immediately thought of many old tales of Kings and men of high rank who have smashed chessboards after losing a game, or used the chessboard to strike at the winner, wiping chess pieces off the board in a display of temper, etc. Putin Just Threw Over the Chess Board and Russians Feel Shame and Dismay March Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-59182053255829021752022-03-19T13:24:00.002-05:002022-03-19T13:24:52.430-05:00Russian Invasion of Ukraine Affects FIDE and the World of ChessPutin's unprovoked terrorist war against babies, pregnant women, mothers, children and the elderly civilians in Ukraine has affected the world of chess. From the US Chess Federation (online):U.S. Chess Executive Board Statement on Russian Federation Invasion of UkraineBy U.S. ChessFebruary 25, 2022Excerpts: ... The United States Chess Federation (US Chess) strongly condemns the Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-88856889979802947162022-02-24T11:25:00.003-06:002022-02-24T11:25:35.218-06:00News Shorts: A Chess Upset and a Sad Love Story Hola darlings!Just a brief visit, I've yet to finish reading all the news but there isn't much "good" in most of it.First, it appears that Magnus Carlsen is not a Borg machine-man after all, he actually lost a chess game, to a 16 year old Indian kid, no less. GASP! I couldn't help but laugh at the headline of this article, from The New York Times morning online edition today:Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-20203697426810755582022-02-21T10:55:00.002-06:002022-02-21T10:55:33.712-06:00News Shorts - The World is Insane, Period Hola! It's 2022 and we're almost 3 months into it, Holy Hathor, where does the time go? We're expecting freezing rain and sleet in southeast Wisconsin later today, and lots of snow, up to a foot or more, in the counties further north. Not looking forward to three or four days of iced-over sidewalks, so I dashed out early this morning and picked up essentials for Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-60084950379636200572021-12-25T10:38:00.001-06:002021-12-25T10:38:22.710-06:00Merry Christmas 2021! Hola darlings, and a Merry Happy Christmas and holiday season to you all! Here's the final version of this year's Christmas tree:Comet Leonard will be seen from Earth (without telescope) for the last time tonight. No, it's not the magical "star" that led the Three "Kings" (Magi [magicians and astrologers/astronomers] from the "East", probably somewhere in Mesopotamia) to the Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-85042878760589883612021-12-21T17:21:00.004-06:002021-12-21T17:21:49.102-06:00St. Louis Chess Club Special Gift to You All! Hola, darlings! Sorry I haven't been here for awhile (again). This is one of the busiest times of the year for me and yes, still fussing and mussing with trying to get the (new) Christmas tree absolutely and gorgeously perfect this year. Haven't gotten there yet, but gave up and said to heck with it, it is what it is. But it's like settling for being a 435 player Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-13159422349393824652021-11-25T14:43:00.001-06:002021-11-25T14:43:11.625-06:00Happy Thanksgiving Day!Hola! Just a brief note to wish you all a wonderful Thanksgiving Day. I hope those who celebrate this holiday are with their loved ones - family and friends and special people. As the old toast goes, "Eat, Drink and Be Merry." I will be preparing my feast later on - a filet mignon, scalloped potatoes, and baby green peas. And if I have any room left for dessert, I Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-57429864029914564302021-09-27T11:05:00.005-05:002021-09-27T11:05:55.298-05:002021 U.S. Women's Chess Championship (October 5 - 19, 2021)Hola darlings!What a beautiful day in Milwaukee, 74 degrees, sunny, low humidity. I wish the entire summer had been like this, but now I'm getting the yard in ship shape just in time for winter to arrive. Sigh. Well - not going to think about that right now. The weather has energized me - it's a relief to be able to work hard and not break a sweat in 2 minutes. The Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-65192031810054140662021-09-20T17:48:00.002-05:002021-09-20T17:48:25.295-05:00"The Queen's Gambit" in the News AgainHola darlings! Sorry I haven't been around all summer. Too busy planting, pruning, raking, killing sod web worms (over and over and over again), mowing, mulching, edging the lawn (what a chore THAT was, wowsers!), harvesting my bounty of veggies, etc. etc. Oh, and doing the COVID-19 cha cha trying to avoid getting a break-through infection. I've been ignoring Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-72561224185047608422021-05-19T10:48:00.002-05:002021-05-19T10:48:47.772-05:00Southwest Chess Club Reopening for Person to Person Play! Hola darlings! I haven't posted for awhile, I've been busy with seemingly never-ending projects around the house and of course the moment the first hints of spring appeared I was outdoors savoring getting my hands in the mud again! And then there was the yearly wrestling match (13 rounds) with the dreaded INCOME TAX RETURNS. Ugh! Every year there seems to be ANOTHER Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-76272044474489200482021-04-10T15:12:00.000-05:002021-04-10T15:12:24.071-05:00Well - Duuuuuhhhhhhhh! Female Hunters - of Course, But We Women Already Knew That, Thank You Still digging through my emails to myself of research and interesting articles I find here and there when I do my daily dive into the internet. This is from January 2021 (not as bad as July 2020 - see post below, yikes!) What New Science Techniques Tell Us About Ancient Women WarriorsRecent studies show that man was not always the hunter.By Annalee NewitzJanuary 1, Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-87740993821711342132021-04-10T13:46:00.002-05:002021-04-10T13:46:45.074-05:00She Was Buried with a Silver Crown - in the Bronze Age in SpainQueen? Queen consort? Just a rich woman with a yearning to be a "royal?" Or a female leader of her clan, buried with honors and her mate buried with her? What's your guess?From The New York Times (online)Bronze Age Tomb in Spain Hints Women Helped Govern By Jennifer PinkowskiMarch 11, 2021A silver diadem recovered from a 3,700-year-old grave in the La Almoloya Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-71917233080726846912021-04-10T13:32:00.002-05:002021-04-10T13:32:24.176-05:00What All Women Know - Men Have "Itchy" Feet Oh yeah, men seem to have been created to want to ramble around and explore everything and anything, while (most) women want to make homes and stay put! It's been that way since the very beginning of humanity, evidently. Men get a case of itchy feet and the women sigh, pack up, and are hauled along for the "adventure."We even have it "codified" in popular music:Ramblin' Man, Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-64747519080301077142021-04-10T11:13:00.003-05:002021-04-10T11:13:58.874-05:00Ritual Art? I have a bone to pick when it comes to classifying this item of art - or any art - as "ritual" unless there is substantial evidence to back up such a conclusion. How do we know when something as old as the Shigor Idol is "ritual art" or not? Just because it's old? Just because it was evidently "portable" - at least, it could be taken down and moved if the assumptions Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-61425483635489160532021-04-10T09:05:00.000-05:002021-04-10T09:05:24.948-05:00Are Recurring Cycles of Violence Something We in the U.S. Have to Live With? Hola! Spring has sprung here and when weather has permitted I've been working hours outside daily doing the massive spring yard and garden clean-up. I swear there is more to clean up every year - or else I'm just getting older and slower. When I haven't been working outdoors I've been working on the house - there is always new decor to bring in and changes to make with theJanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988819177523345400.post-23937819088910557992021-03-24T15:30:00.004-05:002021-03-24T15:30:28.378-05:00It's Cherry Blossom and Chess Time! Well, at least in some parts of the country and the world it's cherry blossom time! No cherry trees blossoming around SE Wisconsin yet unless there in a arboretum, but spring is springing up more and more, a wee bit here and a wee bit there as the weather continues to warm. Every LAST BIT of my 4 foot plus tall snowbanks have melted away in mid-March - like the kind Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575870809633911343noreply@blogger.com0