Title : Why is there women's chess in the first place? My female mind fails to comprehend.
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Why is there women's chess in the first place? My female mind fails to comprehend.
I'm trying to read "World chess body bars trans women from competing in women’s events/The International Chess Federation’s new guidelines also strip transgender men of previously won women’s titles" (NBC News).
This isn't like swimming and tennis and the like. There's no physical component... just an insulting implication that women are mentally inferior (at least in some chess-specific way).
From the article:
I found this — not addressing the trans issue — in a Chess.com forum from 2008. Somebody says:There is no recent research that proves men have significantly different IQs or are smarter than women, and older studies — one from 2005 and another from 2006 — that do make that claim have been debunked....
Something I don't understand. I understand in arenas like basketball, where men simply have a natural physical advantage. But there is no proof that men and inherently smarter or better thinkers than women. The closest we have to that is that men tend, in general, by a tiny margin to be more analytic thinkers than women. And that is very vague, at best....
Someone else says there may be something different about the intelligence of women: They "do not spend there [sic] whole life studying a 'game.'" And: "it is to do with the way the brain is 'wired.' Women are not as good (in general) at tactical/logical pursuits in the context of a game. They also do not often posess [sic] the same winning desire."
There's also the familiar idea that men are overrepresented in the "genius" category.
But what's probably most at play in the current transgender controversy is the fact that there are so many more male chess competitors, and having a separate women's division insures that there will be some female faces among the winners. I think the Chess Federation is worried this scheme was failing.
I'm trying to read "World chess body bars trans women from competing in women’s events/The International Chess Federation’s new guidelines also strip transgender men of previously won women’s titles" (NBC News).
This isn't like swimming and tennis and the like. There's no physical component... just an insulting implication that women are mentally inferior (at least in some chess-specific way).
From the article:
I found this — not addressing the trans issue — in a Chess.com forum from 2008. Somebody says:There is no recent research that proves men have significantly different IQs or are smarter than women, and older studies — one from 2005 and another from 2006 — that do make that claim have been debunked....
Something I don't understand. I understand in arenas like basketball, where men simply have a natural physical advantage. But there is no proof that men and inherently smarter or better thinkers than women. The closest we have to that is that men tend, in general, by a tiny margin to be more analytic thinkers than women. And that is very vague, at best....
Someone else says there may be something different about the intelligence of women: They "do not spend there [sic] whole life studying a 'game.'" And: "it is to do with the way the brain is 'wired.' Women are not as good (in general) at tactical/logical pursuits in the context of a game. They also do not often posess [sic] the same winning desire."
There's also the familiar idea that men are overrepresented in the "genius" category.
But what's probably most at play in the current transgender controversy is the fact that there are so many more male chess competitors, and having a separate women's division insures that there will be some female faces among the winners. I think the Chess Federation is worried this scheme was failing.
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