Iranian woman becomes chess GrandmasterPayvand – 05/18/09 TEHRAN, May 18 (Mehr News Agency) — Iranian chess player Atousa Pourkashiyan became Chess Grandmaster on Monday. Pourkashiyan earned the title in the 38th Chess Olympiad in Dresden after gaining eight points...
Pourkashiyan wins Iranian Women’s Championship
Official website: http://www.achmaz.ir/ WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan wins the Iranian Women’s Chess Championshipby Mahdipour Reza WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan won convincingly the Iranian Women Chess Championship 2009. She collected 11,0/13 points without a single loss – 9 wins and 4 draws....
International Women Chess Tournament
41st International Women Chess Tournament3-11th March in Belgrade, SerbiaReport by Chessdom.com The 41st International Women Chess Tournament took place on 3-11th March in Belgrade. One of the longest running chess tournaments in the world, established back in 1963, is...
Bishkek women’s tournament
Women’s chess contest takes place in Bishkek10/03-2009 07:41, Bishkek – News Agency “24.kg”,By Ksenia TOLKANEVA Chess contest among women timed to the International Women’s Day took place in Bishkek, chief referee of the contest Satar Keldibaev informed the news...
Top female players compete in Turkey
Top female chess players to converge in Turkey The top-rated female chess players will converge to Istanbul to participate in the 2nd Turkey Is Bankasi Ataturk FIDE Female Masters’ Chess Tournament. Tuesday, 03 March 2009 15:20 The tournament will...
Numbers’ game
The Buzz: Queen Pawn in ChessPosted on: December 26, 2008 9:23 AM, by Arikia Millikan While attempts to explain the disproportionate number of women in math and science have resulted in the conclusion that women are innately inferior to...
The strongest women’s event
The strongest women chess event ever starts July, 26th! The traditional female super-tournament “North Urals Cup” opens the doors of it’s 6th edition on July, 26th 2008 in Krasnoturinsk (Yekaterinburg region, Russia) and will grab the attention of the...
An excellent chess blog
From time to time, I feature interesting chess blog(s). The one I would like to point out today is http://www.goddesschess.blogspot.com/. Chess, Goddess and Everything Welcome to the Goddesschess Blog. It’s an offshoot of what we do at Goddesschess: reporting...
Former WWC Gaprindashvili discusses women’s chess
Photo by Fred Lucas I just read this from ChessToday.net: GM Mikhail Golubev: In issue 9 of the European Championship bulletin an interview by Lejla Dimitrova with the women’s ex-champion Nona Gaprindashvili was published, which is certainly worth reading....
Critical round 8 for the ladies in Turkey
Round 8 pairings and results: GM CHEN Zhu 2548 1-0 IM DRONAVALLI Harika 2455IM KRUSH Irina 2473 0-1 WGM XUE Zhao 2517IM ATALIK Ekaterina 2408 0-1 WGM YIFAN Hou 2527IM JAVAKHISHVILI Lela 2470 1-0 GM CRAMLING Pia 2524IM USHENINA...