why are women worse at chess than men?

egregiously?

Hey, trysts, nice brief essay!  Here's my unusual-for-a-girl experience:  I found an old chess set in the attic when I was 14, learned the moves from the one page aricle in our Compton" Picture Encyclopedia, taught my mother to play, played a bunch of games with her, and a few weeks later, when I mentioned this to my math teacher, he invited me to come to the high school chess club meeting.  I walked into a room to see 10 older high school boys.  They all rolled their eyes and smirked, then sat me down across from my first opponent, the club president.  I beat him.  (Now, that was fun.)

Chess is fun. I don't study it.  I enjoy it.  To quote what a wise woman once said: "Good grasshoppers it's just a game!"

"egregious: shocking, appalling, terrible, awful, horrendous, frightful, atrocious,

abominable, abhorrent, outrageous; monstrous, heinous, dire, unspeakable,

 shameful, unforgivable, intolerable, dreadful; ANTONYMS marvelous."

Cause the thread is ruled by women, they are all here

obnoxius?

ludicrous? 

who? (TheGrobe)

what?

You are the one that does not understand.  You have to answer why that is?  Why do people not encourage girls in chess?  You'll probably find that the reason is far fewer girls show interest or aptitude.  Sure the exceptions may be caught in the cross fire, but there is not a conspiracy to keep women down.  The sexes are treated differently because they are different.

Several of the people on my team at work started playing chess on their break.  One of them keeps hanging out with a female who sat with him a few times while he played.  I asked her about it and if she was interested in playing.  She said she was not interested...it was boring with no talking and only for guys.  She is Hmong, a culture where they still treat the sexes differently. 

Something that people here do not consider is that our idea that the sexes are equal is as much a part of our culture as their ideas are a part of theirs.  When you are inside it, it feels more like fact than just a passing fad of a few generations.  Right now we are overreacting to what Hitler did.  However it means there are things about ourselves we cannot learn.  Someday it would be good if we get to the point where we can deal with reality without going Nazi or doing other stupid things.  There are clearly differences in gender and races.  We really don't know what they are.  Maybe the education systems only work best for men and women would be just as successful if they had an education system built for how they learn.  Maybe men just have a higher average intelligence or most of the outliers.  Maybe women just have different drives.  Answers to these questions may lead to better lives for everyone, but we won't get to the answers if we are scared of them.

That's a neat story

Here we go again! This must be like the millionth thread on women and chess.

Hi trysts, long time! 

I agree. The final answer is "Who knows, who cares? Let's all just enjoy the game."

Oh, nothing really, I just wanted to point this out.

Exactly, ab121705, people are still trapped in this gender thing. It's gone, it's dead. Move on!

Amen! :) 

Why don't people encourage girls to become professional chess players? Because it's an esoteric career choice. Parents discover that their child has a unique interest in the game. One or both of the parents were probably interested in the game to begin with. It comes down to the individual. It's not an endeavor upon which males can rejoice about being superior to females. Stick with weight-lifting or murder if you want to giggle to yourself about being superior.

Hi, SandyJames!

Yeah, I didn't really understand that?