Re:Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first ...
by lelanthran on Monday January 02, 2023 @12:26AM
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I've always wondered about this, actually.
With almost all sports males have a dramatic physical advantage[1] so it's not really fair to have males compete with females.
With chess there is no physical advantage, so why keep separate tournaments for males and females? What is the reasoning for preventing males and females competing in chess?
[1] In the 90s, ISTR reading about a tennis match between a #3-rank female player against a #5000-something-ranked male, and the male player simply dominated. I wish I could find that article now, but it was a print mag and I don't remember which one it was.
With almost all sports males have a dramatic physical advantage[1] so it's not really fair to have males compete with females.
With chess there is no physical advantage, so why keep separate tournaments for males and females? What is the reasoning for preventing males and females competing in chess?
[1] In the 90s, ISTR reading about a tennis match between a #3-rank female player against a #5000-something-ranked male, and the male player simply dominated. I wish I could find that article now, but it was a print mag and I don't remember which one it was.