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Monday, April 18, 2022

St. Louis Chess Club Hosting The 2022 American Cup

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  Hola darlings!  It's snowing/raining here today.  It's ONLY April 18, 2022 and Spring evidently doesn't intend to appear in Mi...
Friday, April 1, 2022

2022 - 15th Annual Grand Pacific Chess Open (Victoria, BC)

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  Hola!  So pleased to see one of the tournaments that Goddesschess has sponsored women's prizes for many years is once again going to b...

Throwing Over the Chessboard - An Analogy for Our Times

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When I saw this article (an opinion piece) at The New York Times today, I immediately thought of many old tales of Kings and men of high ra...
Saturday, March 19, 2022

Russian Invasion of Ukraine Affects FIDE and the World of Chess

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Putin's unprovoked terrorist war against babies, pregnant women, mothers, children and the elderly civilians in Ukraine has affected the...
Thursday, February 24, 2022

News Shorts: A Chess Upset and a Sad Love Story

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 Hola darlings! Just a brief visit, I've yet to finish reading all the news but there isn't much "good" in most of it. Fir...
Monday, February 21, 2022

News Shorts - The World is Insane, Period

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 Hola!  It's 2022 and we're almost 3 months into it, Holy Hathor, where does the time go?   We're expecting freezing rain and sl...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

Merry Christmas 2021!

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 Hola darlings, and a Merry Happy Christmas and holiday season to you all!  Here's the final version of this year's Christmas tree: ...
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

St. Louis Chess Club Special Gift to You All!

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 Hola, darlings!  Sorry I haven't been here for awhile (again).  This is one of the busiest times of the year for me and yes, still fuss...
Thursday, November 25, 2021

Happy Thanksgiving Day!

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Hola!  Just a brief note to wish you all a wonderful Thanksgiving Day.  I hope those who celebrate this holiday are with their loved ones - ...
Monday, September 27, 2021

2021 U.S. Women's Chess Championship (October 5 - 19, 2021)

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Hola darlings! What a beautiful day in Milwaukee, 74 degrees, sunny, low humidity.  I wish the entire summer had been like this, but now I...
Monday, September 20, 2021

"The Queen's Gambit" in the News Again

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Hola darlings!  Sorry I haven't been around all summer.  Too busy planting, pruning, raking, killing sod web worms (over and over and ov...
Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Southwest Chess Club Reopening for Person to Person Play!

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 Hola darlings!  I haven't posted for awhile, I've been busy with seemingly never-ending projects around the house and of course the...
Saturday, April 10, 2021

Well - Duuuuuhhhhhhhh! Female Hunters - of Course, But We Women Already Knew That, Thank You

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 Still digging through my emails to myself of research and interesting articles I find here and there when I do my daily dive into the inter...

She Was Buried with a Silver Crown - in the Bronze Age in Spain

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Queen?  Queen consort?  Just a rich woman with a yearning to be a "royal?"  Or a female leader of her clan, buried with honors and...

What All Women Know - Men Have "Itchy" Feet

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 Oh yeah, men seem to have been created to want to ramble around and explore everything and anything, while (most) women want to make homes ...

Ritual Art?

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 I have a bone to pick when it comes to classifying this item of art - or any art - as "ritual" unless there is substantial eviden...

Are Recurring Cycles of Violence Something We in the U.S. Have to Live With?

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 Hola!  Spring has sprung here and when weather has permitted I've been working hours outside daily doing the massive spring yard and ga...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

It's Cherry Blossom and Chess Time!

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 Well, at least in some parts of the country and the world it's cherry blossom time!  No cherry trees blossoming around SE Wisconsin yet...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Oooooooooh Brother! The Bongcloud Attack Returns!!!

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  As possibly the most ignorant and utterly incompetent chessplayer in the entire world since the beginning of time, I confess - I never hea...
Monday, February 1, 2021

Alien Object Fly-By?

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 Okay, I can't resist, LOL!  I happened to see this while scrolling through older stories at The New York Times online just now.  It...