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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2011 Wijk aan Zee (Tata Steel Chess) - Photos by Fred Lucas

2011 Wijk aan Zee (Tata Steel Chess)

2011 Iran Women's Chess Championship

PACKERS GOING TO NFC CHAMPIONSHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whoa! World female chess players shame Turkey

A South African Chess Princess

2011 Wijk aan Zee (Tata Steel)

2011 Wijk aan Zee (Tata Steel)

Bible from 1670 Found in Old School in Wisconsin

Dogs Love Chess

The Goddesschess Scholarship

Sam Sloan Was Right...and it's the end of the world as we know it...

The Janus of Chess Faces This Way ... And That Way...

Woof, Woof! New Evidence of Earliest Domesticated "American" Dog

And...More Evidence of the Spread of Ancient Agriculture

Jiangxi Province (southern China) Yields Ancient Artifacts 6,000 to 2,000 Years Old

Six Pieces of 18th Dynasty Double Statue Discovered

Confirmed Evidence of Oldest Yet Evidence of Wine Making

Chess Femme News!

Texas Tech Leaps to Top Chess Schools