There is no scientific evidence to support the claim that women are worse at chess than men. However I do see a lot of unconscious bias in many posts. Even people who are not consciously sexist can hold implicit biases that favor men in chess.

48 minutes ago, tgw said:

yeah.

that's dumb.

there should be no distinction of sex or gender in Chess competitions at all.

being human should be the only requirement.

 

Obviously. 

This tangential transgender issue has shed light on the outrageously sexist policies of chess competitions. 

End the separation and it's only a matter of time until women raise in the rankings.

2 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

There is no scientific evidence to support the claim that women are worse at chess than men. However I do see a lot of unconscious bias in many posts. Even people who are not consciously sexist can hold implicit biases that favor men in chess.

It's pretty darn sad that such Irrational bigotry is so common. 

2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Chess is a game of intellect.

So you're saying women are dumber.

If that isn't sexism I don't know what is.

It's board game with rules.

 

Maybe men are better at interpreting the rules than the girls.

4 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

It's board game with rules.

 

Maybe men are better at interpreting the rules than the girls.

That's ridiculous.

Some off topic baiting posts in violation of our Community Standards have been removed as this topic is about:

 

World chess federation bars transgender women from competing in women's events

4 hours ago, Jingthing said:

It's pretty darn sad that such Irrational bigotry is so common. 

  You asked and I replied with rational thought.  Response on the rational ideas?

 

7 hours ago, Jingthing said:

I find your ad hominem post shallow and absurd. 

 

Let me ask the fair minded readers this 

 

If women by their biological nature are inferior in intelligence to men, why is there even one female CEO, university department head, state governor, or head of state in the world?

 

If men and women have the same intellectual potential as I do believe they do, there should have never been any gender separation in chess competitions. 

 

You can't have it both ways.

  

4 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

I'm a fair minded reader so therefore I qualify to respond.

Again, there are undeniable differences between men and women.  Both mental and physical.  Those differences, when mental, are not strict indicators of inferiority in intelligence.  Rather, it would have more to do with the ways in which women process information versus men.  One is not better or worse than the other.  They are merely different.

Given that then anyone can, if they so chose, deny that quite real differences exist.  And in their denial they can also, if they chose, call anyone who recognises those differences a sexist.

The fact that there are female CEOs, State governors, etc. is indeed an indication that females possess all of the attributes necessary to be successful in those roles.  Yet at the same time it should be understood that it is not merely the intellect that is solely responsible for any success.  Women also bring into play important feminine attributes which their counterparts do not either possess or possess in varying degrees.

And so again, too, there is more to this issue than perhaps what you are currently able to see.  It's a complex issue that should not be over simplified.

So the "you can't have it both ways' argument becomes inapplicable and not relevant.

 

5 hours ago, Jingthing said:

It's pretty darn sad that such Irrational bigotry is so common. 

Why, they want 100% blokes, or 100% women playing chess, what is your problem with that.

Plus, I would suspect anyone involved in chess has more gray cells than you or me to make the decisions regarding the game....????

1 hour ago, transam said:

Why, they want 100% blokes, or 100% women playing chess, what is your problem with that.

Plus, I would suspect anyone involved in chess has more gray cells than you or me to make the decisions regarding the game....????

I  wouldn't be so.sure about that.

A good friend of mine growing up was a total chess God who then went on to MIT and being a tech industry legend.

At the same time he'd go out at night to bash homos.

Many people have great intelligence in narrow areas combined with massive idiocy in others.

A more famous example Elon Musk