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WOMEN IN CHESS

Written by
Stewart Reuben
Female
chess used to be regarded as something of a curiosity.
A
good Trivial Pursuits quiz is, ?We know the first World Junior Chess
Championship was held in Birmingham in 1951. When was the first World Girls
Championship held?? The answer is in 1927 and, of course, in England . Vera
Menchik won it the same year as she went on to win the First Women?s World
Championship. Presumably there was considerable interest in female chess in
this
era because Vera came to live in England . In truth, nearly all the entrants
were British. The event died with the advent of the Second World War and was
only revived in the 1970s. We had to
wait
for Harriet Hunt to win the World Girls Under 20
Championship 50 year after Rowena Drew (later Bruce). Elaine Saunders (now
Pritchard) is one of the girls who gained the title before the Second World
War and she is still very much alive, though not now playing chess
competitively.
In 1973, Susan Caldwell and Sheila Jackson asked for permission
to play in the British Boys Championship in the same age group. They felt
there was not enough competition among their peers.
It was refused, after all, how can a girl play in a boy?s championship? By
the following year the regulations had been changed and it became the
British Under 18 Championship. Yet, when I played in the British Boys
(Under-18) in 1956 and 1957, I found nothing strange in there being a
separate girl?s event.
Since 1974 there has been only one tournament, with the girl champion being
the highest placed player in the open age group event. In 1994 Tania Sachdev
of India (who played in Gibraltar in 2007, who is playing in 2008 and is
current Asian and Indian Women?s Champion) collected five trophies. British
Under 9,
British Under 9 Girls, British Under 10, British Under 10 Girls and British
Under 11 Girls. As a seven year old, her hands could not grasp all five
trophies simultaneously. A girl winning the overall event has become
sufficiently commonplace that, where
necessary, an overall winner trophy is presented, and also the highest
placed boy and highest placed girl.
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Benjamin
Franklin
The game of chess was especially important to Benjamin Franklin, and he
likened his life of business and diplomacy to the game. In his Morals of
Chess (1779)
Franklin wrote, ?Life is a kind
of Chess, in which we often have Points to gain, & Competitors or
Adversaries to contend with. . . .The game is so full of events . . . that
one is encouraged to continue the contest to the last, in hopes of Victory
from our own skill.?
Franklin?s own life was instrumental in the
founding of the
United States
and influential in its course since. He was the only person to help draft
and to sign all of the nation?s founding documents: The Declaration of
Independence, in 1776; the Treaty of Paris, in 1783; and the Constitution
of the
United States,
in 1787. In addition, he negotiated and signed the Treaty of Amity with
France, in 1778, which
secured
France?s
financial and military support without which the American Revolution would
likely have foundered.
While living in the Paris suburb of Passy from 1776 to 1785, Franklin was
the American rebels? representative not only to the French court but to
the world. He frequently entertained friends, spies, and fellow statesmen.
Franklin?s continued popularity with the French helped guarantee his
greatest diplomatic victory, the 1783 Treaty of Paris, officially ending
America?s Revolutionary War with Great Britain.
It was during this time in Paris that Franklin likely purchased the
missing table around which he would have discussed his official duties as
well as pursued his passion for chess. This would make the table witness
to some of the most diplomatically delicate moments in American history.

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Alfred Nobel - The Man Behind the Nobel Prize
Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been honoring men and women
from all corners of the globe for outstanding achievements in physics,
chemistry, medicine, literature, and for work in peace.
The foundations for the prize were laid in 1895 when Alfred Nobel
wrote his last will, leaving much of his wealth to the establishment
of
the Nobel Prize. But who was Alfred Nobel? Articles,
photographs, a slide show and poetry written by Nobel himself are
presented here to give a glimpse of a man whose varied interests
are reflected in the prize he established. Meet Alfred Nobel -
scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author and pacifist.
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Three beautiful
ladies, three champions.
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?ğdem ONUR.
Meeting was very cheerful
and full of chess.
They left with a good
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Anthony playing Bulgarian Master
Chess Player Petko Petkov over the phone while Dinko Skerlev makes the
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Up and coming talent,
Jerome Chisom.
His goal is become
a grandmaster and IWCCI
is honored to be a
part of his dream! We will do our part, the rest will be up to him!

Left to right
Chairman Anthony
Winn, Kenya Cox, Senator Brownback.
We at IWCCI wish Senator Brownback success on his run
for the Governors seat in the upcoming election!

Former Chairman,
William Sanders
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