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Nov. 9, 2008
Chess Femme News Penned by our own Ace Reporter, Jan Newton - here is the scoop on the November release of an article that should soon appear at Chessville.
Oct. 19, 2008
Vegas Showgirls 2008!
EXTRA! Showgirls cover Vichy and Anan! The World Chess Championship match between GM Viswanathan Anand and GM Vladimir Kramnik draws Bambi and Candi into the spotlight! Shocking Expose!
Aug. 17, 2008
Chessquest
The Goddeschess 9th Anniversary CelebrationCome read about our lataest exploits and and experience the graphical wonders!
July 16, 2008
Chesstories
The Legend of Dalukah by Don McLean, has received a significant footnote upgrade. (July 16. 2008)
July 13, 2008
Chessquest
The Mesoamerican Sacrum Bone: Doorway to the Other World by Brian Stross (pdf instant download 3.1 Meg ) A large document but well worth the read. The author's research is stellar, as are his conclusions detailing recovery of ancient shamanic traditions involving dice. For an html view but without important graphical content click here.
July 6, 2008
Chessquest
The Sacred Game by J.C. Hallman Goddesschess "enthusiastically" presents this informed thoughtspiece from the pen of J.C. Hallman. (July 4. 2008)
April 27, 2008
Art and Artifact::
... a few new graphics entries that we hope will capture your imagination.
March 23, 2008
Chessays
The Symbolism of Chess by Titus Burckhardt
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In this essay, Titus Burckhardt ties the game of chess (which originated in India and subsequently underwent minor modifications during its stay in the West) back to a larger, sacred reality. He covers an almost incredible amount of information (the caste system, astrology, and World Cycles) in a short period of time."
March 16, 2008
Chessays
"The Doctor's Game - A New Light on the History of Ancient Board Games" (see also PDF section the Chessay's Table of Contents ) "Excavations betweeen 1987 and 2003 on the fringes of the site of Camulodunum revealed an extraordinary funerary site with a Middle Iron Age antecedent." Dr. Ulrich Schadler's specialist report provides us with a high quality analysis of these discoveries from an esteemed authority on Roman era board games. Muchos gracias Ulrich!
January 20, 2008
Chesstories
Check Republics by Sally Feldman - With the kind permission of Paul Sims, this article is reproduced from New Humanist, a London-based magazine promoting reason,debate and free thought since 1885. Visit their website to browse an extensive archive dating back to1999, where you can also request a free trial copy
The Real Honest to Goddess Truth about Football By Alpheta Patton (with Donus Felinicus) Super Bowl Sunday is just around the corner. Goddesschess (and the game of the goal posts) is pleased to present the real meaning behind the game and what this means to chess. Truthiness in action! Grab a beer, hang onto your helmets, sit back and prepare to be infotained! Forward en Passant! Go Ra!
December 7, 2007
Chessays
Dr. Ricardo Calvo, M.C Romeo, et al
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Instant Download :: This partially edited draft includes a collection of translated essays extracted mostly from Dr. Ricardo Calvo's Spanish publication - "Lucena: an Escape into Chess". Our MSword entry incorporates and improves upon the previously appearing segment of goddesschess' projected two part series - bugun earlier in html as - Love, Chess and Literature in Lucena - an Unnoticed Precedent of "La Celestina"- Part I.
November 4, 2007
Chessays
Three Games - Three Epochs M.C. Romeo's recent 2007 IGK presentation investigates a succession of events and a common theme running through medieval literature. (716 kb In pdf format)
October 7, 2007
Alpheta's Literary Agora
Schacchia Ludus by Marcus Hieronymus Vida, Bishop of Alba
September 2, 2007
Chessays
A new paradigm for an "Origins of Chess" theory
by John Ayer - This essay argues that the generally accepted scheme for the derivation of the current and disused forms of chess from the original Indian proto-chess is mistaken:
August 26, 2007
Chessquest
The Goddesschess Summer 2007 Celebration! Follow our fearless foursome as we explore and navigate the local chessboards of Milwaukee, Chicago and environs by land, sea and air. Photoworks, butterflies and fireworks help cap our 8th Anniversary installment.
July 1, 2007
Chessays
Love, Chess and Literature in Lucena - an Unnoticed Precedent of "La Celestina"- Part I further explorations in to the character and historical background of Lucena by Dr. Ricardo Calvo. (Special thanks to Carmen Romeo, who kindly forwarded Goddesschess this remarkable essay.)
Chessquest
Butrint in Vivisection Part II by Donald McLean - In which the play of pharoahs recaptures Butrint's historical conscience while netting a few cscharlatans in the process. Measure for measure, our man Butrint has been disgracefully wronged! Long live the king!
June 17, 2007
Chessays
Chessmen and Chess By Charles K. Wilkinson
We present here (with our notes) the text of Charles K. Wilkinson's article about the chess pieces excavated at Nishapur in 1939.
June 3, 2007
Alpheta's Literary Agora
Through a Glass Darkly by Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. - As it turns out, the famous American general had a lesser known poetic side...
"Through the travail of the ages,
Midst the pomp and toil of war,
Have I fought and strove and perished
Countless times upon this star."...
May27, 2007
Chess Goddesses
Ageless wonder! Alina Markowski delved into chess in the 1950s, at a time when women in the sport were uncommon. By Jan Newton - May 27, 2007
April 29, 2007
Goddesschess Blog
New Godesschess Blog! Yes darlings! Once again Goddesschess headlines the news with the announcement of our very own Google Blogspot. Come and experience!
April 17, 2007
Chesstories
"Chess", the Musical - A Story About a High-Stakes Game... and Chess, Too - (in two parts) By Jan Newton - April 16, 2007
Alpheta's Literary Agora
If I Were a Chess Master - by Michael Frey (Thanks for the poem Michael!)
If I Were King - song lyrics from the Wizard of Oz
April 1, 2007
Chessquest
No foolin'! "An Ancient Game Computers Can't Master" Jan Newton's March 31, 2007 report on "Go" strikes a blow for humanity!
March 20, 2007
Chesstories
The
Legend of Dalukah Mas''odi's Dalukah appears to be a composite
character. Here we find her in A. E. Wallis Budge's recapitulation,
weaving her magic in a way that reminds us a great deal of grande
alcedrix. As with almost everything Egyptian, the imagery is
forcefully suggestive and profound.
March 17, 2007
Chessquest
New
discovery or just the same old song? Between March 9 -12,
2007, a news story was picked up by several chess bloggers on
the internet. The gist: A research team claims to have moved
a step closer to proving that chess originated around the northern
Indian city of Kanauj in the 5th century. Even so, we have some
"questions" we would like to see resolved...
March 5, 2007
Gender
and Chess
The
Experts Say - It's Just A Numbers Game by Jan Newton March,
2007 - On February 3, 2007 my friend and fellow Chess
Femme News Correspondent, Wayne Mendryk, who reports from
northwest Canada, sent me an interesting item he'd come across
while he was compiling a news report for Chess Femme News.
He found the report at Chessbase,
one of the premier chess news websites. Here is Wayne's
report:
February 28, 2007
International
Chessoid
Chessoid
goes Hollywood! Donus Felinicus puts a claw into Hollywood
Squares and and does what cats are wont do to with tablecloths.
This is Alice's old trick.. Find out why nothing in Hollywood,
or chess, is what it appears to be. Queen
Wins Oscar! A cameo appearance on these very Chessoid pages
by our Hollywood savvy Vegas Showgirls! It takes a Showgirl
to know one!
February 16, 2007
Chesstories
Dilaram
Revisited by Jan Newton
An UPDATE of previous Dilaram research
into a timeless chess story and the problems people encounter
when falling in love with chess... and each other!
Chesstique
Chesstique: An all new look from the four corners
of our upscaled merchandising adventure to you... Check out
our brand new Goddesschess storefront PLUS - Georgia's Custom Games - Pawn Promotions - Chess
Showgirls Collection
Chess Femme News
Chess
Femme News The Aeroflot Open, one of the strongest Swiss
chess tournaments of the year, begins Wednesday in Moscow. The
tournament director has posted the first round pairings at the
official tournament website...
January 31, 2007
Aishwarya
Rai and Chess - Six Degrees of Separation by
Jan Newton
January 27, 2007 - Bollywood does chess on the big screen!!
January 22, 2007
Chessquest
Great
Snakes! The Serpent Gameboard of Iran" Much ado about
- nothing? UPDATED: January, 2007
- Additions to Jan Newton's research of November, 2005.
January 17, 2007
Chessquest
The Jiroft
Game Boards An UPDATE of Jan Newton's original
essay, first launched on November, 2005. On February 6, 2005,
an article appeared in the online version of the "Persian Journal"
announcing fabulous archaeological finds in Iran... How
fabulous? Check out those birds!
Chessquest
When
is a bird not a bird? Another UPDATE!!
This time of Don McLean's introduction to the article which
originally appeared on November, 2005. In the mystic's world
and the virtual world of board games, folkloric legends are
often more truthful than strange. Archaeological fragments and
the metaphysical collide head on in this Mandeaen exploration
of the Simurgh.
January 2, 2007
Chessquest
Goddesschess'
Seventh Anniversary Celebration! Like Old Man River, we
just keep rolling along... this time to spectacular Chicago
and the Field Museum. Jan
Newton reports on Tlingit North American "chess" and other native games
while sharing the discoveries of our August, 2006 get together.
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Nov. 30, 2008
The thrill of victory at the 2008 Chess Olympiad !!
We honor the Gold Medal winning-teams of Armenia (Open) and Georgia (Women) (photo left) of the 2008 Chess Olympiad held in Dresden, Germany, which concluded on November 25, 2008. The Armenian Team, composed of GM Levon Aronian (2757), GM Vladimir Akopian (2679), GM Gabriel Sargissian (2642), GM Tigran L. Petrosian (2629), and GM Artashes Minasian (2541), repeated their 2006 Gold Medal performance. The Georgian Women's Team, composed of GM Maia Chiburdanidze (2489)(center figure, left photo), IM Nana Dzagnidze (2503), IM Lela Javakhishvili (2473), IM Maia Lomineishvili (2437) and IM Sopiko Khukhashvili (2409), celebrated their Gold Medal performance with the legendary Chiburdanidze earning an individual Gold medal for her performance on Board 1. Chiburdanidze also won a prize for the best Performance Rating. The Chess Goddess revealed her keen sense of irony and poetic justice by shutting out the much-vaunted Russian Open and Women's Teams of Team medals. The Russian teams entered this Olympiad both ranked number 1. The Russian Open Team finished in 5th place overall; the Russian Women's Team finished in 4th place overall.
We also take this opportunity to congratulate the hard-fighting American Open and Women's Teams (USA Women's Team photo above) who both earned Team Bronze Medals for the USA - against all odds. These are only the 3rd and 4th Olympiad medals won by U.S. Chess Olympiad Teams: The 2006 U.S. Open Team won a Bronze Medal in 2006 and the U.S. Women's Team (anchored by GM Susan Polgar on Board 1) won a Silver Medal in 2004. USA's IM Anna Zatonskih (red dress) won an individual Gold Medal for her Board 2 performance, and WGM Rusudan Goletiani (grey dress) earned an individual Silver Medal for her Board 3 performance. Wrap-up coverage at Chessvibes.com
Iron Age stele reveals early evidence of belief in the soul By William Harms - A funerary monument recovered in southeastern Turkey reveals that people who lived in Zincirli, an important Iron Age city, believed the soul was separate from the body. They also believed the soul lived in the slab.
Discoveries Made 70 Years Ago Reveal Mystery: Why did the makers of these 12,000 year old stone tools leave them behind? Eyota, Minn: In the late 1930s, Adolph Schumann was plowing a corn field on his family’s Olmsted County farm when he hit a rock...
15,000 Year Old Pottery Found in Amur River Region: The oldest evidence of pottery making yet discovered, the Russian archaeologists who uncovered the camp site claim the ancient people who inhabited the encampment were "Russian tribes." Shades of Star Trek's Ensign Chekov, who claimed everything was invented and/or discovered by Mother Russia...
Meanwhile...
Buddha Relic?
A one thousand year-old miniature pagoda, recently unearthed in the Changgan Temple ruins in Nanjing in China, is believed to contain a part of Buddha’s skull. More coverage.
Nov. 23, 2008
Sifting through China - a small universe unto itself!
 Record find of oracle bones in Shaanxi
By Ma Lie (China Daily) Updated: 2008-11-12 07:10
XI'AN -- Archaeologists in Shaanxi province have unearthed more than 1,100 oracle bone characters, shedding new light on the number of such inscriptions in existence.
New archaeological discovery rewrites earliest Chinese characters dating JINAN, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Inscribed animal bones and jade pieces unearthed in Changle County of eastern Shandong Province are earliest examples of Chinese characters dating back 4,500 years ago, the latest archaeological studies show.
More oracle bones Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., Professor of History, Sias International University, Xinzheng, China.
Longmen Grottoes consists of over 100,000 Buddhist images carved in caves during the Northern Dynasties, Sui Dynasty, & Tang Dynasty, c. 500-900 AD. Highlight is the Grand Buddha Niche, of which the central figure represents Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future. It was commissioned by China's only female emperor, Wu Zetian, and supposedly is based on her physical features. Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., Professor of History, Sias International University, Xinzheng, China.
Ancient China: Lack Of Rainfall Could Have Contributed To Social Upheaval And Fall Of Dynasties ScienceDaily (Nov. 7, 2008) — Chinese history is replete with the rise and fall of dynasties, but researchers now have identified a natural phenomenon that may have been the last straw for some of them: a weakening of the summer Asian Monsoons.
9,000-Year History Of Chinese Fermented Beverages ScienceDaily (Dec. 24, 2004) — PHILADELPHIA -- Chemical analyses of ancient organics absorbed, and preserved, in pottery jars from the Neolithic village of Jiahu in Northern China have revealed that a mixed fermented beverage of rice, honey and fruit was being produced as early as 9,000 years ago, approximately the same time that barley beer and grape wine were beginning to be made in the Middle East
Dead tell a tale China doesn't care to listen to: The Loulan Beauty is one of more than 200 remarkably well-preserved mummies discovered in the western deserts here over the last few decades. The ancient bodies have become protagonists in a very contemporary political dispute over who should control the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
Real life large bronze horse unearthed in Hubei: WATCH VIDEO Source: CCTV.com: 11-19-2008 09:47 An excavation of a tomb has unearthed the largest bronze horse ever discovered in an ancient ruin. The discovery was made in Xiangfan, in Central China's Hubei province.
"Treasures of Dunhuang" exhibit in Paris
An exhibition named "Treasures of Dunhuang--One Thousand Years of Buddhist art--from 4th to 14th Century" held by China's Gansu provincial government, Chinese Culture Center and Guimet Museum, opens to media on Wednesday. The exhibition will open to the public on Nov. 21, 2008 and end on Feb. 28,2009.(Xinhua/Zhang Yuwei)
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