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Trans teen’s chess win in Germany prompts backlash
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meh.
if they really cared, there would not be any official 'gendered' tournaments. but there are, because they want that for some reason.
Gendered chess tournaments make a certain amount of sense. The main issues are that women are less likely to play chess due to societal and cultural factors and without their own division would have even more societal and cultural roadblocks to joining the game. This isn't touching on how getting certain titles requires winning specific events that would prove even more difficult for those same reasons.
Basically without gendered tournaments there would be even less women in chess and it would be even more of a "boys club" than it already is.
I mean, easy fix there right? Just have a women's tournament and an everybody tournament. Women can then choose which to enter.
That's what we already do?
Oh gotcha. Sorry I'm not the most familiar with the chess world.
No because there are men only tournaments too, what the poster is saying is to remove men only and only have women or everybody we think.
What chess tournament is men's only, I haven't heard of a single one?
Okay, seems you were correct. Thanks for the correction, genuinely!
Maybe not officially, we aren't sure (we will look this up). But there are some men who refuse to play with women.
If you are paired against an opponent and choose not to play against them then you get an uncontested match loss and will tank your ELO pretty quickly. This is also anecdotal but I've never met a player who would refuse an opponent of roughly equal ELO
Awesome, thanks for the correction!
That specific scenario wouldn't make the tournament a "men's only" tournament, it'd just mean that a bunch of sensitive weirdos are throwing a strop because a woman is in the vicinity lol
That's so mad though, are there really men who refuse to play chess with women???
Hmm, we could have sworn we saw something a while ago but we aren't finding anything now. Oh well shrugs.