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| Sep-29-18 | | InspirationChess: what a excuse of "quits chess for love" is ridiculous.
She had a rapid development of rookie to professional from his country in just 2 years of playing chess.
what any player would want quickly.
It is a great pity that she has not valued his great potential. |
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Sep-29-18
 | | keypusher: <Sep-29-18 InspirationChess: what a excuse of "quits chess for love" is ridiculous. She had a rapid development of rookie to professional from his country in just 2 years of playing chess. what any player would want quickly.
It is a great pity that she has not valued his great potential.> As you can see by glancing at the bio at the top of the page, she did not, in fact, quit chess for love. To the extent she decided not to devote quite so many weekends pushing bits of plastic around in dingy hotels, good for her. There’s more to life than chess. |
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Sep-29-18
 | | OhioChessFan: To be fair, the average chess player might not be all that attuned to such social niceties as "love". |
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Sep-30-18
 | | HeMateMe: I kissed an older woman tonight. |
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Dec-18-18
 | | sleepyirv: Sports Illustrated has an excellent article on Lisa Lane and women in chess: https://www.si.com/more-sports/2018... |
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Dec-18-18
| | keypusher: <sleepyirv: Sports Illustrated has an excellent article on Lisa Lane and women in chess: https://www.si.com/more-sports/2018... If by excellent you mean regurgitating the usual crap about how top women make less than top men, and omitting that those women make far more than men of comparable strength, then yes. It's excellent. If you mean completely omitting any discussion of why men might play chess more often and better than women for any reason other than sexism, then it's absolutely first-rate. |
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| Dec-19-18 | | Caissanist: The SI article overall was pretty meh, but I'm glad that the author at least got her to sit for an extended interview, the first I know of since she stopped playing tournament chess. It's a shame that vision problems have made it impossible for her to play online chess anymore. |
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| Mar-27-19 | | Gallicrow: Nice picture of Lisa Lane (Hickey?) and her husband now (Jan 2019):
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detai... |
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| Nov-01-21 | | newzild: <sleepyirv: Sports Illustrated has an excellent article on Lisa Lane and women in chess: https://www.si.com/more-sports/2018... If by excellent you mean regurgitating the usual crap about how top women make less than top men, and omitting that those women make far more than men of comparable strength, then yes. It's excellent. If you mean completely omitting any discussion of why men might play chess more often and better than women for any reason other than sexism, then it's absolutely first-rate.> Unfortunately true.
Her elo rating was apparently in the 1900 - 2000 range. This is even weaker than me. What are the changes Sports Illustrated will put me on their cover? |
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| Nov-01-21 | | Caissanist: Well, she was a <little> stronger than that. USCF ratings have inflated about 200 points since then (Fischer was #1 on the 1962 list at 2687), so presumably she'd be around 2200 today. Still only good for #30 or so on today's women's list, and of course much lower than that overall. |
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Nov-01-21
 | | harrylime: Respects to Lisa Lane but her Bio on this site is the same size as Bobby's. ...Joke . |
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| Nov-02-21 | | Cibator: Anne Sunnucks's "Encyclopedia of Chess", published 1970, had a longer entry for Ms Lane than it did for Spassky. |
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| Nov-05-21 | | newzild: <Caissanist> I dunno. Some pretty basic errors for example in L Lane vs E Keller-Herrmann, 1966. Also, I look fantastic in a bikini. |
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| Jan-25-23 | | Caissanist: <newzild> Yes, it seems like she didn't know what she was doing. Probably by this point she was using the olympiad as a training tournament or just goofing around, with the US team long since having been eliminated from contention for much of anything. |
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Jul-05-23
 | | mifralu: < Just 23, Philadelphia Girl Tops U.S. Women Chess Stars > https://books.google.de/books?id=ho... |
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| Mar-21-24 | | stanleys: Wikipedia indicates that she has died on 28 February - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_... |
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Mar-21-24
 | | kingscrusher: Fascinating article about Lisa Lane here:
https://slate.com/culture/2024/03/w... Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comm... |
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Mar-21-24
| | kingscrusher: RIP Lisa Lane
According to Wiki:
She died February 28, 2024 (aged 85)
Kent, New York |
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Mar-21-24
 | | Chessical: Ms Lane was stymied by the lack of money in women's chess. The 2018 Sports Illustrated article quotes her in 1961, “People will be attracted to the game by a young, pretty girl. That’s why chess should support me. I’m bringing it publicity, and ultimately, money.” But it did not work out,
"Her anger over the financial disparity had spiked in 1963, when she was passed over for a spot on the national team for the Women’s Chess Olympiad. It was customary for the country’s top two women to go; Lane was second at the time, behind Gresser. But she didn’t get the call. The US Chess Federation picked Gresser and a lower-ranked woman named Mary Bain. When Lane demanded an answer and went to the media to get it, the federation acknowledged that part of its reasoning had been that both Gresser and Bain could pay all of their own expenses for the tournament in Yugoslavia." |
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| Mar-21-24 | | Petrosianic: <...a lower-ranked woman named Mary Bain> Mary Bain was, in fact, an established star, and former US Women's Champion, not just some lower-ranked player. As for lower-ranked, Lane was rated 2038, Bain 1979. Lower, yes. Appreciably lower, no, and Bain had played in more US Women's Championships. |
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| Mar-24-24 | | Granny O Doul: It's not surprising that the nearly thirty years older woman had played more championships to that point, but if the idea is to send the best team, 59 points isn't nothing. I'm guessing the men's team wasn't chosen according to who could pay his own way. |
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Mar-29-24
 | | Sally Simpson: A really good article that Kingcrusher,
She married Neil Hickey in 1969 and they were still together in 2022. He passed away on the 27th March a month after Lisa. |
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| Nov-22-24 | | Petrosianic: <In 1966, Lane tied for 1st place with unknown player in the U.S. Women's Chess Championship.> Unknown Player was Gisela Gresser. |
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Nov-22-24
 | | jnpope: That link in the bio, [unknown player], tries to go to gisela_kahn_gresser.html. When did <CG> do away with HTML pages for players? I've updated the bio with a link to Gisela Gresser. |
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| Dec-26-24 | | stone free or die: Here's an archived link to her <Earth Lore Gems and Minerals> store's website: https://web.archive.org/web/2015031... . |
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