not enough for a couple of these freaks ive seen with pics of themselves with their shirts off tryin to impress some1. They should leave that pic for myspace. HAHA
How many females are in www.chess.com?
I don't think it's a perverted thread. The number of female chess players is upsettingly low. I'm curious to know how many there are here too.

if u can tell their name pls tell.
jhuschstp i wish i could agree, but as he says that ^^

Girls aren't into chess as much as boys. Just like boys aren't into dancing as much as girls are. That's not to say no boy dances, or no girl plays chess. Just means you'd expect more boys to play chess than girls, so what is there to be suprised about?
Doesn't the question then become why are girls not into chess and boys not into dance? It seems to me to have nothing to do with being a boy or girl, but it is defined by social convention.
With that said, when you ask for their names you are setting yourself up to be mocked.

*me raises hand*
And I'm not a very good player...
Still, I wouldn't feel so alone. Esperantists ask the same question! Women are a minority on the Internet in general, and when this adds up with them being less attracted to chess...
The old steryotype is that girls are into languages and such, whereas boys excel at logic and hard sciences. I guess the small inborn difference is amplified by social conventions.

I can't accept that men intuitively know how to use a hammer or play poker nor that women don't. We make these things up to create a difference we were trained to see since birth. Science doesn't support this natural difference regardless of the fact that we all just assume it to be common knowledge.
Men most likely intuitively know how to hold a hammer or play poker because they were given toy hammers and poker sets as children while the girls were given their gender specific toys. Chess just happens to be one of those gender specific toys. More than likely, because women were thought too irrational to be able to play it up until the last 60 years or so.

I'd like to think I'm an average woman but then again maybe I'm not. I like chess, not great but better than some, and poker is one of my favorite games, too (which I am pretty good at compared to others). As for the hammer thing I don't know who you have been watching but when I use a hammer I hold it close to the base as does my mom and my sister and we don't even use the hammer often but at least once every month or two.

PC is very disturbing. There are differences between men and women ( males and females if you prefer ) whether or not some people want to admit it. I am NOT talking about the obvious differences in their "plumbing" either.

pls tell and if u can tell their name pls tell.
Hey ZACRONALDO7:
Ask this guy http://www.chess.com/echess/profile/flash he seems to be playing every female with a hot profile picture in chess.com.

Hence why I emphaised most. When I was at primary school, the best english students were girls, the best maths were boys. Its statistics. Just because you (furys_cane) have no experiance of 'womanly woman', so to speak, doesn't mean there aren't any, and doesn't mean you are in the majority either. Remember your experiances of your own life make you biased.
Are you sexist?! Id say that was rude.

Girls aren't into chess as much as boys. Just like boys aren't into dancing as much as girls are. That's not to say no boy dances, or no girl plays chess. Just means you'd expect more boys to play chess than girls, so what is there to be suprised about?
Doesn't the question then become why are girls not into chess and boys not into dance? It seems to me to have nothing to do with being a boy or girl, but it is defined by social convention.
With that said, when you ask for their names you are setting yourself up to be mocked.
No I don't think so, because boys generally have that mindset for chess, while girls don't. Have you ever seen (*YOUR AVERAGE*) woman use a hammer? They hold it near the head. Your average man on the other hand, holds it from the base. It's intuition. I believe this applies to chess too. Same with poker.
Now that really depends on what you're planning on doing with that hammer...

I do admit and even agree that men and women are different on levels other than anatomy (especially in brain chemistry and organization) but I think past experiences make everyone biased even in your own life. Besides your definition of womanly could be extremely different from mine but seeing as how we are both of the western thought, I doubt it.
Anyway i usually avoid these threads because I find them to get repetive fairly quickly. I just posted because the hammer story seemed like a bad example, because holding a hammer from the top of just seems really awkward. I could go into the physics of why that is but aparantly that isn't very "womanly".

Hence why I emphaised most. When I was at primary school, the best english students were girls, the best maths were boys. Its statistics. Just because you (furys_cane) have no experiance of 'womanly woman', so to speak, doesn't mean there aren't any, and doesn't mean you are in the majority either. Remember your experiances of your own life make you biased.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
pls tell and if u can tell their name pls tell.