Saturday, September 12, 2015

Women Were Some of the Fiercest Samurai Warriors Ever

A short video on Aizu warrior women:

Women Were Some of the Fiercest Samurai Warriors Ever

In ancient Japan, battle was typically reserved for male samurai. That all changed when Takeko Nakano and her sister, Yuko, decided to fight for their clan's independence after a deadly village invasion (3:22)

Source: Smithsonian Channel: Samurai Warrior Queens

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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