Re:Counterintuitive economics of a chess tournament
by bluecalm on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @08:05AM
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I upvoted you because you have the right sentiment imo. Special prices for black people or people with red hair would be ridiculous and those groups are even more underrepresented than women are.
The thing is though that women have it harder in chess the same way as in boxing, tennis or sprinting.
People try to run circles about the fact that there are very significant biological differences which influence performance in chess but if you ever were a part of competitive chess world (or any intellectual game really, for example bridge) you wouldn't argue with that. It's just too obvious looking at children taking up chess and seeing the pace of progress they make.
There are many lazy slobs who are better at chess than the most dedicated women out there (maybe with exception of Hou Yifan). It's the same way a lazy smoking overweight aged player from somewhere in top 200 of ATP would absolutely destroy Serena Williams, it's just the difference is smaller in chess but it's still there.
The thing is though that women have it harder in chess the same way as in boxing, tennis or sprinting.
People try to run circles about the fact that there are very significant biological differences which influence performance in chess but if you ever were a part of competitive chess world (or any intellectual game really, for example bridge) you wouldn't argue with that. It's just too obvious looking at children taking up chess and seeing the pace of progress they make. There are many lazy slobs who are better at chess than the most dedicated women out there (maybe with exception of Hou Yifan). It's the same way a lazy smoking overweight aged player from somewhere in top 200 of ATP would absolutely destroy Serena Williams, it's just the difference is smaller in chess but it's still there.