Over the years I've tried to examine and present chess' many aspects. I've always felt that chess and it's surrounding culture far transcends the champions, great players, and classic games. Most of the lesser aspects, usually the more interesting parts, get trampled underfoot in the constant telling and retelling of the relatively few major aspects. In the realm of chess development women have played a very minor role. There are reasons for this, but whatever the reasons might be, they don't change the bottom line. However, women have played their own supporting roles. These roles have traditionally been, if not mostly ignored, at best pushed to the back pages. Maybe this is the correct way to handle minor things, but then again, the devil is often in the details. At any rate, knowing that women's contributions have largely gone unnoticed, I've spent considerable time over the years trying to entertain, interest and regale readers with tales of chess and the ladies or with articles from a feminine perspective. Writing blogs has certain drawbacks. The chief drawback is that there is no good way to index content. While some of the content comes up through a search, nothing is ever exposed for browsing or window shopping. I decided to make a summary page listing and linking everything I've wriiten and could find that deals with women and chess.
My Summary of Female Topics
Women's Chess in England Judy: Introduction Judy's Problems Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI
Miss Nellie Down and the Devil Ladies' Entry into the Chess World Ladies' Chess Club: First year Ladies' Chess Club: Early Years Ladies' Chess Club: Middle Years Pillsbury and the Ladies Little Mother, Part I Little Mother, Part II Houlding, Herring and Sidney Some Turn-of-the-Century Ladies Madame Ludovici of Wiesbaden Signorina Fagan Mlle. Schwartzmann You Play Like an Old Lady! Patricia Anne Sunnucks Edith E. Helen Winter-Wood Baird These Women Can Play Chess
Women's Chess in America
Revolutionary Chess Ladies The Queen of Chess, Part I The Queen of Chess, Part II The Queen of Chess, Part III The Queen of Chess, Part IV Nellie American Ladies' Championship Women of the Great Unknown 2nd American Women's Chess Congress Rosa Jefferson A St. Louis Women's Champion Moore on Ladies' Chess First 17 Years of Organized Women's Chess in America Adele Rivero Adele Rivero Belcher Karff's Revenge Women in Chess - 1937 Rosemarie Fischer - 1939 Women in Chess - 1940 Girl Prodigy American Women Willa and Edith Jackie P The Markowskis Mary, Mary Pt.1 Mary, Mary Pt.2 An Incidental Champion - Nancy Roos Lisa Lisa Lane The Mysterious Diane Savereide Diane Savereide - revisited Savereide and Cardoso Savereide and Jackson Gone too Soon - Elena Donaldson Glimpses into the not-too-distant Past Women in Chess The Schuhplatter Chess Tournament Land of 1000 Dances
Other Countries Girl Prodigy II (Cuba) Edith Keller (Germany) Je Maintiendrai (Holland)
Essays and Other Things
Women Can Play Chess! What Girls' Dreams Are Made Of Chess, the Swimsuit Issue? Why I Play Chess. . . Of a Like Mind One Girl's Online Chess Life Why Women Can't Play Chess Chess Bitch - a Review
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