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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A Review of What We Know About Ancient Human "Species Interbreeding" (as the scientists call it, what bunk!)

Yet Another New Kind of Human?

If They Live On In Us, How Can They Be Called "Extinct?"

Independent Research Line Confirms "Neanderthal" Genes in Most Humans

Not Cannibals After All?

Could these teeth turn "out of Africa" theory upside down?

Ancient Trade: Cretan Tools Point to 130,000 Year Old Sea Travel

Out of Africa Proponents Getting Desperate

Bones, Oh Those Bones

They Still Don't Get It

700,000 Year Old "Earl Humans"?