Goddesschess: 2012 London Chess Classic

Friday, November 30, 2012

2012 London Chess Classic

The 4th London Chess Classic starts tomorrow. Among the players is GM Judit Polgar, the best female chessplayer in the world.

Polgar will be matching skills across the chessboard with some of the top-rated players in the world:

Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Vishy Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Hikaru Nakamura -- and from Great Britain, Michael Adams, Gawain Jones and Luke McShane.

Official website.

Pairings 2012

Round 1, Sat Dec 1st, 14.00				Round 5, Thur Dec 6th, 14.00
Luke McShane	-	Magnus Carlsen		Vladimir Kramnik	-	Luke McShane
Levon Aronian	-	Hikaru Nakamura		Gawain Jones	-	Vishy Anand
Vladimir Kramnik	-	Judit Polgar		Mickey Adams	-	Magnus Carlsen
Gawain Jones	-	Mickey Adams		Judit Polgar	-	Hikaru Nakamura
Vishy Anand (bye) - assisting commentary				Levon Aronian (bye) - assisting commentary

Round 2, Sun Dec 2nd, 14.00				Round 6, Fri Dec 7th, 14.00
Judit Polgar	-	Gawain Jones		Magnus Carlsen	-	Judit Polgar
Hikaru Nakamura	-	Vladimir Kramnik		Vishy Anand	-	Mickey Adams
Magnus Carlsen	-	Levon Aronian		Luke McShane	-	Gawain Jones
Vishy Anand	-	Luke McShane		Levon Aronian	-	Vladimir Kramnik
Mickey Adams (bye) - assisting commentary				Hikaru Nakamura (bye) - assisting commentary

Round 3, Mon Dec 3rd, 14.00				Round 7, Sat Dec 8th, 14.00
Levon Aronian	-	Vishy Anand		Gawain Jones	-	Levon Aronian
Vladimir Kramnik	-	Magnus Carlsen		Mickey Adams	-	Luke McShane
Gawain Jones	-	Hikaru Nakamura		Judit Polgar	-	Vishy Anand
Mickey Adams	-	Judit Polgar		Hikaru Nakamura	-	Magnus Carlsen
Luke McShane (bye) - assisting commentary				Vladimir Kramnik (bye) - assisting commentary

Round 4, Tue Dec 4th, 16.00				Round 8, Sun Dec 9th, 14.00
Hikaru Nakamura	-	Mickey Adams		Vishy Anand	-	Hikaru Nakamura
Magnus Carlsen	-	Gawain Jones		Luke McShane	-	Judit Polgar
Vishy Anand	-	Vladimir Kramnik		Levon Aronian	-	Mickey Adams
Luke McShane	-	Levon Aronian		Vladimir Kramnik	-	Gawain Jones
Judit Polgar (bye) - assisting commentary				Magnus Carlsen (bye) - assisting commentary

Wednesday 5th is the rest day				Round 9, Mon Dec 10th, 12.00
				Mickey Adams	-	Vladimir Kramnik
				Judit Polgar	-	Levon Aronian
				Hikaru Nakamura	-	Luke McShane
				Magnus Carlsen	-	Vishy Anand
				Gawain Jones (bye) - assisting commentary

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2013 SPONSORSHIPS

Hales Corners Chess Challenge XVIII
October 12, 2013
Milwaukee, WI
Record prize money awarded to chess femmes - $800!
In honor of National Chess Day and the one year anniversary of the passing of our webmaster, researcher and writer, Don McLean, additional prizes of $150 were awarded to the top two male finishers in each Section.

Milwaukee Summer Challenge II
June 15 - 16, 2013
Milwaukee, WI
Prizes for the chess femmes and funding a best game prize

2013 U.S. Women's Chess Championship
May, 2013
St. Louis, MO
Goddesschess Fighting Spirit Award awarded to Anna Zatonskih

Hales Corners Chess Challenge XVII
April 13, 2013
Milwaukee, WI
Goddesschess prizes totaled $540:
$180 paid to female players in the Open
$290 paid to female players in the Reserve
$70 paid for the top female players' entry to Challenge XVIII in October, 2013

2013 Grand Pacific Open
Easter Weekend
March 29 - April 1, 2013
Victoria, BC
Prizes for female players and additional sponsorship to support appearance of a WGM

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