How To Get More Women Into Chess

Do you think we are talking about placing a gun to their head and say "Play or I'll shoot"? 

Ofcourse they would have to want to play chess. Are you making yourself more stupid then you are, since you clearly dont get this? 

I will try to break it down one last time. 

I enjoy chess. I do belive women would like chess. Today women who want to play chess choose to do other activities since they feel the chess comunity dont take good enought care for them. What can we do to make women feel more welcome? 

That is the best I can do. If you still dont get it, I'm sorry I cant make it easier than this. 

Males and females both have equal potential. But how do you get more females to play? Give them an example or someone to follow. An ideal example would be a female Carlsen. Young and very good at chess. It would also help if this person was attractive.

I just watched some films recently that had scenes with a chess game. It's interesting cause a lot of films commonly throw a chess scene in. Recently I watched Twighlight: a new dawn and that's where I saw (lol) . 

I think a lot of people are open to playing chess, but the problem is they don't have hte committment to play long enough to be good players. 

So women would play chess, but there is no long term stay value. Like women who play WoW (world of warcraft) enjoy the community/ online friendships/ team building from years of play, and get good at those games, but there's no long term draw of enthusiasm for chess. 

Chess is more like an online game I used to play before online video games got popular for girls and that was Socom. There were a few hard core girls playing, but rare versus ratio to guys. 

Recently I was watching an online game stream a girl was doing on Twitch and it was some kind of card turn based online WoW or magic game or something, and I suggested if she liked chess, and she was like "oh ya I've played before, lol" but that was it. 

It might help if the more attractive women were fast tracked. With the feelings of the not so attractive in mind, they could be made to feel useful by making the tea etc.

Get Steven Spielberg to direct a George Clooney film where he has chess with dozens of women, with hanky panky after the games.

I think this comment is why there are not so many female chess players, but I guess in this story you would be the one serving tea right?

Guys make terrible cups of tea :-(

 "The first time you share tea with a Balti, you are a stranger. The second time you take tea, you are an honored guest. The third time you share a cup of tea, you become family..." - Three Cups of Tea

So I have just registered here and saw this thread. First thought: "Damn, more feminist propaganda with 'We are just as good! Now give us extra rights and privileges!' I will have to leave this community and fast". I was about to write something between lines: "If women want to play chess, no one is holding them back." And post that study/article/something that spoke about chess playing girls and them loosing interest. But then I read OP:

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 When one lady is playing another the fattest should go first. Some scales brought by the organiser to the event - no big deal.

First prize, grading prize...how boring ! There should be a prize for the best looking lady at the tournament...

I hope this topic isn't hijacked with the usual silliness that surround this subject. Let's be constructive for a change.
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10/10 Op. Well done.

What if the fat one is drawn black ?

If one comment from a guy on the internet stops them from playing chess, they didn't have the drive anyway.

My self appointed role is to increase the ability of Spanish people to appreciate humour, and if it's too dry, I would gladly  give you a cuppa my friend

        An altogether outrageously sexist and untrue remark.

still, my joke was better than yours :)

Name a guy that makes a decent cup of tea, eh ?

Its called a joke in responce to a fairly stupid question. Who cares how many girls play chess? What does it matter? The question should say how do we get more PEOPLE playing chess? Gender is irrelevant. Will the game expierence improve if there are more female players? Not for me. Mainly because I'm not a sexist pig who cares about the gender of my opponent.

I disagree. Biologist and psykologists aliike say how the brain of a male and a female works in to sepperate ways.

A man thinks in boxes. Right now I am in the writing box. An houre ago I was in the dinner box, and when we enter a box we tend to stay there utill we are done and open another box. 

Women thinks like spaghetti. A big mess where every thought is connected. That is why you can start arguing about which car to buy and end up with repainting the house. 

When a male player plays the game he opens his french box, or his sicilian box or whatever he wants to play. I think we should aim for a 50-50 gender ratio simply becouse it will open a whole new dimention to the game.  A way of playing that no man can find by himself becouse every time you get a new idea your brain lifts you up and place you back in the box.

Replace "box" with "reality" and you've got a 10/10 post.

In addition to all of this, the man in question might be concerned about whether or not his opponent is a woman simply because he is mainly interested in chest and not chess, like you might think he'd be. The guy hopes he gets mated.

Ziggy, I assure you Spanish people appreciate humour. Never a Kaynight's comment will be unnoticed while I'm in this site.