Women vs men

I personally don't think Chess is a sport. Not denigrating her win over Kasparov or the fact she's a woman at all, just my personal opinion. I think any woman can beat me at chess, I'm absolutely useless at the game, I just don't have the patience to play it

Even in chess there is a clear difference between men and women, just looking at ELO ratings shows this. However, I think this is a question of interest and access over brain power or anything like that. Women were simply kept outside the professional chess realm and still are to some degree. As it was very much a mans world, there was less interest from girls (chess is a young persons game) to take it up. This is slowly changing but I don't think we will see an equal level of skill for at least over a decade.

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Most of the ranking tables that I've seen don't indicate the gender of the players.

Viz:

https://ratings.fide.com/

https://www.chess.com/terms/elo-rating-chess

They don't. Clue is in their names, though. Top 80 are all men.

I don't know if you play chess. I do, and even a 30-50 elo difference at that level is quite big. So, for example the best male player is around 200 points higher than the top female. That is a massive gap and essentially means Carlsen would be able to beat Yifan every time, 100 out of 100. Within the 200 points difference you have around 80 other male GMs who outrank the top female. It is that way with blitz, bullet, rapid, classic, and other time controls.

Again, I want to make it clear I don't see this as anything to do with gender and/or skill etc. This, for me, comes purely from access and interest. It is changing and will change, but will take time.

New balls please!!

Beautiful eyes......

How long does it take to tie a shoe?

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How long does it take to tie a shoe?

ten minutes?

In this case, there’s seems to be a direct relationship between the time it takes and the distance from her collarbone to the top of her outfit’s neckline.

This guy is WAY too into his theory -

Totally correct

Reminds me of the joke

DOCTOR TO PATIENT - I have the results of your tests , sir.

PATIENT TO DOCTOR - Doctor , you know I am a lady , please address me correctly.

DOCTOR - OK , as you wish Miss!

PATIENT - Go ahead Doc!

DOCTOR - I am sorry Miss, but I have to inform you that you have tested positive for Testicular Cancer and we also suspéct you have a major problem with your prostate gland.

The World's gone f'ing mad if you ask me.

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The World's gone f'ing mad if you ask me.

It went mad years ago, when section 28 was repealed

Section 28?