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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Goddesschess

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Shin-Mu

This and That -- From the Archaeologists Themselves

2010 Women's World Chess Championship - R5 Play-offs

In Thailand, An Ancient Tradition of Tribute to the Rice Goddess Endangered by Lack of Interest

2011 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival

2010 Women's World Chess Championship - Koneru Humpy Knocked Out of Running

Has Amelia Earhart At Long Last Been Found?

Mexican Mother Killed for Demanding Justice in Daughter's Death

New World Bones Suggest Wolf/Dog Cross-Breeding

All-Girls Doncaster Gardens Primary School Team Wins Honors

2010 Women's World Chess Championship - Semi-Finals G1

Game Board Mystery

8000 Year Old Sun Temple Found in Bulgaria

Chess Femme News!

2010 Women's World Chess Championship - R4 Playoff Results

British Museum Brings Together Newark and Sedgeford Torcs

She Lost Her Head, EEK!

Chess Femme News!

Yearning for Spring

2010 Women's World Chess Championship - R4, G2