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The Ever-Changing, Never-Ending Question...
Goddesschess presents a selection of articles, excerpts and quotes - some serious, some humorous, some ridiculous - but all addressing the question of gender and the way it plays out in the world of international chess.
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Glimpses into the newest literature Can women play chess as well as men? Do breasts prevent a female chess player from executing a logical gameplan?
Does an overabundance of testosterone automatically mark the male as a more competitive chessplayer?
Why are men such poor losers when they lose a game to a woman?
Why can't we seem to overcome this never-ending battle between the sexes?Perhaps the answers to so many of these questions lie within. Certainly, traditional constraints that women have experienced over the ages have affected the way in which they have been taught to see themselves and their role in society. We hope these essays and articles will spur some thought about the present state of chess and gender.
Table of Contents
Emma Pierson - Why I Play Chess Emma's essay has been published at many other websites and blogs. Emma offered her piece for publication at Goddesschess on August 23, 2007. We are pleased to do so. It is a finely written piece - honest, revealing, touching, and as nuanced as the game about which she writes.
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 us an interesting item he'd come across while compiling a news report for Chess Femme News. This article resulted.
Jan Newton The Women of Chess: An overview of longstanding gender role assignments in traditional societies.
The Tussle in Turin!
By Jan Newton Here's an update on Arianne Caoili. A black eye for chess - or some much needed publicity? It may be all one and the same thing! POW! SOCK! BANG! [06/10/06]Chess Prodigy Caoili Threatens to Relinquish Citizenship by Dennis U. Eroa Caoili can't get financial assistance from her own chess federation, and contemplates playing under the sponsorship of another country. A problem for players everywhere, but particularly for promising young female players. [07/04/02]
The Girl's Club by Chess Chick. Chess Chick did a survey on women's chess and published some very interesting results. [06/29/01]
How Gender May Bend Your Thinking by Christine Gorman, Time Magazine, July 17, 1995, Volume 146, No. 3 [01/28/01]
Selected excerpts from "Women in Chess, Players of The Modern Age" by John Graham, McFarland & Company, Inc.(1987), pgs. 1-2, 4-6 [5/10/00]
Susan Lalic
"Queen One", Harriet in the Hunt, from The Chess Cafe, Archives, 1998 [5/10/00]Julia Lawlor
From the Microsoft "Kasparov vs. Deep Blue? The Rematch" website, May 8, 1997, Susan Polgar Women's Champ Battles Discrimination [5/10/00]Shoba Narayan
From the Microsoft "Kasparov vs. Deep Blue? The Rematch" website, May 8, 1997, Chess' Glass Ceiling [5/10/00]Ramadas Rao
From The Times of India, June 25, 2000, "The Male Is Still King of the 64 Squares" [6/28/00]Checkmate
FromThe Salt Lake Tribune, May 14, 2000 [8/9/00]Rick Kennedy
From Chess Life Magazine, "The Vera Menchik Club", p. 74 April, 2000 (with the kind permission of the author - thanks Rick!) A short story raises several provocative questions about men facing a female GM in tournament play... [9/11/00]The Neglected World of Women's Chess The Hindu, February 19, 2000 [12/17/00]
Susan Lalic
From Harriet in the Hunt,"Queen One", The Chess Cafe, Archives, 1998 [10/25/99]John Henderson
From The Scotsman, Chess Articles, on Judit Polgar, August 21, 1998 [10/25/99]From the "Chessplayer" 9/21/98, Reporting on the results of the 1998 Ladies v. The Veterans Match sponsored annually by Joop van Oseroom and the Max Euwe Association [10/25/99]
From The Salt Lake Tribune September 13, 1998, "Prowess of Women Chess Warriors" [10/25/99]
From Sam Sloan's Chess Page
Article from the Melbourne Herald Sun, April 1, 1998, "Chess Player Cries Foul Over Revealing Rival" [10/25/99]Shelby Lyman
From "Chess ? Are Girls too Nice to Excel in Chess?", The Salt Lake City Tribune, February 2, 1997 [10/25/99]George Koltanowski
From the "Foreward" of Women in Chess, Players of the Modern Age, by John Graham, McFarland & Company, Inc. (1987) [10/25/99]