Goddesschess

"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 Game

About Me

Jan: I'm one of the founders of Goddesschess, which went online May 6, 1999. I earned an under-graduate degree in history and economics going to college part-time nights, weekends and summer school while working full-time, and went on to earn a post-graduate degree (J.D.) I love the challenge of research, and spend my spare time reading and writing about my favorite subjects, travelling and working in my gardens. My family and my friends are most important in my life. For the second half of my life, I'm focusing on "doable" things to help local chess initiatives, starting in my own home town. And I'm experiencing a sort of personal "Renaissance" that is leaving me rather breathless...

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2013 U.S. Women's Chess Championship: Winner of the Goddesschess Fighting Chess Award

2012 FIDE Women's World Chess Championship

2012 ACP Women's Cup

16th European Club Cup for Women 2011

2011 Women Grandmaster Tournament

2011 Women Grandmaster Chess Tournament

The Winner of the 2011 Goddesschess Fighting Chess Award Is...

International Women's Chess Tournament Cotroceni 2011

2010 Mainz Chess Classic

U.S. Women's Champ Anna Zatonskih to Give Fund-Raising Simul

2009 U.S. Women's Chess Championship

2009 U.S. Women's Chess Championship

2008 Chess Olympiad: Some Final Thoughts

2008 Chess Olympiad

Bill Wall's Column on the Krush/Zatonskih Armageddon Game

Open Letter from IM Irina Krush - Response

An Open Letter from IM Irina Krush

2008 U.S. Women's Chess Championship

Blast from the Past - The Spittoons are Gone!

2007 U.S. Women's Chess Championship