Are American women pursuing chess success and facing obstacles?

[Boojatta]

Are American women brain-washed by a superstructure of patriarchal ideology that is overlaid on top of legislation that permits a high percentage of one's income to be from stock options rather than wages?

Do women who do equal jobs receive equal stock options?

[skooooo]

1. But what does "chess" have to do with your question??

[Dreamer Tatum]

8. I think the OP must have stumbled upon a fact about chess and can't get over it

Women have played chess since chess has existed. There have been many good players - the best females ever
are the Polgar sisters, who have sometimes held their own with men.

It has been asked MANY times why there are not more great female players, and the most commonly cited answer
is that women do not, in general, have the same desire and drive to vanquish an opponent than do men. That doesn't mean
men are smarter, or are more cunning. It just means that some feel that women lack a killer instinct.

Chess at the highest levels is about creating very subtle advantages that translate into narrow victories, which tends
to create draws. I suspect that women are equally good at calculation, planning, and evaluating, but perhaps they tend to
choose lines that are not decisive?

It might also be an illusion: maybe women lag behind men in chess because there are not enough matches between men and women?
To get a GM rating, you have to beat other GMs. Maybe those chances don't come up often enough.

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. yeah, very confusing thread title.

[PfcHammer]

2. prolly means "chest success." yeah too many implants

we need more real breastses

[Boojatta]

3. I meant a particular game that is played on an 8 x 8 board of 64 squares

32 of which are white squares and 32 of which are black squares.

Link to a related thread.

[Bonobo]

4. How come there are no WOMYN squares!!! Hey!!!

[Boojatta]

5. The focus is on color.

A king that spends time on black squares can get a reputation for being progressive. If there had been male and female squares instead of black and white squares, then perhaps the Democratic nomination contest outcome would have been different. For example, what if Senator John Edwards had played chess with his wife while discussing their relationship?

[DailyGrind51]

6. In chess, the Queen is the most pwerful piece on the board!

[Boojatta]

7. Powerful?

The game itself hinges on whether the king lives or dies. The Queen does the work. The king gets credit for not getting bumped off. However all of these considerations are symbolic and are unlikely to affect motivation or aptitude for the game.

[DailyGrind51]

9. The King is feeble and useless, whereas the Queen has all the moves!

Generally, a player who sacrifices his/her Queen has already lost, unless he/she manages to exchange his faithful Pawn for a bee-heiress Queen!

[Captain Sensible]

11. You have a screw loose................nt

[mudesi]

12. Actually, it's the pawn

Anybody who knows Chess knows that the pawn is the most important piece on the board. The pawn structure of any given game is almost always enough to determine who will be the winner.

[TahitiNut]

13. Don't worry, some day your prince will come.

Doesn't Disney comfort all of us?? Let's all worship at the Diana altar. Let's fill our lives with how WONDERFUL Royalty is! Everyone knows the Prince and the Pauper ... it's better to be Prince. (Here, Prince! Nice dog.)

Let's just ignore the fact that Queen Elizabeth inherited wealth built on the backs of 'commonors' working and dying while the monarchs played. Let's all sing "Good King Winceslaus.." :puke:

Long live the King? Long live the Queen?

Nonsense. The Bolsheviks did one thing right!

Anyone that doesn't spit upon "monarchs" and adopts the memes of 'royalty' just doesn't fucking get it.