Chess Master Says Women Too ‘Emotional’ To Play Chess, Got STOMPED By Woman

[KamaAina]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/04/20/chess-master-says-women-too-emotional-to-play-chess-got-stomped-by-woman/

According to chess great Gary Kasparov, “Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.” High-level UK chess master Nigel Short, the first Englishman to play in a world Chess Championship match, agrees with the legendary player that women are not properly equipped to engage in what he considered a man’s game.

While attempting to mansplain to Chess Magazine why more women are not represented in the highest levels of the game, Short said that men and women just have “different skills,” and that we should “gracefully accept it as a fact.”...

Short’s remarks drew the ire of female chess players, one of whom pointed out something was was certainly humiliating for a man who believes women are so ill-equipped for the game. Amanda Ross of London’s Casual Chess club told the Telegraph that it is “incredibly damaging when someone so respected basically endorses sexism.”...

“Judit Polgar, the former women’s world champion, beat Nigel Short eight classical games to three in total, with five draws. She must have brought her man brain. Let’s just hope Nigel didn’t crash his car on those days, trying to park it.”

[LiberalEsto]

1. Hah. I was on my high school chess team, many years ago

although I was the only female on the team, and usually was ranked fifth out of five..

During our winter break, the team and chess club had a tournament. I managed to beat Wilson, the #1 player, not just once, but twice. He was speechless. Wilson was the school genius, skipping grade after grade and attending college classes during his senior year. Two of the most satisfying victories in my life.