because females are significantly less clever than males. A Candidate master rank is 2200 FIDE and Woman Candidate Master is 1900.
Why are there so little female chess players?
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Feb 11, 2021
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ask CNN, this is a topic they would loooovee to talk about for a week.
Yeah, that sounds like something they would drag out.
Because men are 4 times more likely to be autistic than women... ;)
Feb 11, 2021
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As a female player who has taught chess at schools for years, the under-representation of females in the chess world is more to do with the social aspect and nothing to do with innate ability. In general many young boys love the competitive cut and thrust of chess in the primary school, young girls don’t feel so much at home in this rough-and-tumble world! This debate is complex and this is just a preliminary observation!
CoconutFRN wrote:
I've noticed that there are 1,655 male FIDE grandmasters. The only thing is, there are only 37 woman grandmasters? Is it simply because of popular interest in the genders like in the STEM field? Or is it something completely different?
they probably just don't feel like playing chess
Feb 11, 2021
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Eucalyptus44 wrote:
As a female player who has taught chess at schools for years, the under-representation of females in the chess world is more to do with the social aspect and nothing to do with innate ability. In general many young boys love the competitive cut and thrust of chess in the primary school, young girls don’t feel so much at home in this rough-and-tumble world! This debate is complex and this is just a preliminary observation!
+1
I'm a Female, I should know why but I don't really, I just know most of my friends thinks it's a slow boring game that takes a lot of time, they have other interests like sports or shopping. so that may be why I find online chess quite fun when talking with people
Feb 11, 2021
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It's a topic that's been talked about a lot. My hypothesis is simply that the average boy and the average girl gravitate toward different interests at a young age
KitsuneNamedKoshii wrote:
I'm a Female, I should know why but I don't really, I just know most of my friends thinks it's a slow boring game that takes a lot of time, they have other interests like sports or shopping. so that may be why I find online chess quite fun when talking with people
shopping? i hate shopping.
haha funny im not a girl
Eucalyptus44 wrote:
As a female player who has taught chess at schools for years, the under-representation of females in the chess world is more to do with the social aspect and nothing to do with innate ability. In general many young boys love the competitive cut and thrust of chess in the primary school, young girls don’t feel so much at home in this rough-and-tumble world! This debate is complex and this is just a preliminary observation!
Yeah, and different interests also, women tend to gravitate a bit more towards arts and crafts than men rather than competition. Who cares as long as the ones that do play enjoy it.
hoodoothere wrote:
They play Scrabble instead.
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hoodoothere wrote:
They play Scrabble instead.
Yea probably lol
Feb 11, 2021
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Eucalyptus44 wrote:
As a female player who has taught chess at schools for years, the under-representation of females in the chess world is more to do with the social aspect and nothing to do with innate ability. In general many young boys love the competitive cut and thrust of chess in the primary school, young girls don’t feel so much at home in this rough-and-tumble world! This debate is complex and this is just a preliminary observation!
shhhh..... you'll shatter someone's fragile and delusional self-esteem.
batgirl wrote:
Eucalyptus44 wrote:
As a female player who has taught chess at schools for years, the under-representation of females in the chess world is more to do with the social aspect and nothing to do with innate ability. In general many young boys love the competitive cut and thrust of chess in the primary school, young girls don’t feel so much at home in this rough-and-tumble world! This debate is complex and this is just a preliminary observation!
shhhh..... you'll shatter someone's fragile and delusional self-esteem.
Too late!! Probably had none to start with hence this topic. ( again.........)
I've noticed that there are 1,655 male FIDE grandmasters. The only thing is, there are only 37 woman grandmasters? Is it simply because of popular interest in the genders like in the STEM field? Or is it something completely different?