Trying to explain the lack of female interest in chess

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ElomAssiobo wrote:
TheNameofNames wrote: ElomAssiobo wrote:

Fiona isnt a gm, never mind

There arent any this is my point its not just nature its also cultural, Maruice ashley is the only black gm i know of and Tanitoluwa, its even worse for the counterpart, im not implying race is important im demonstrating that the culture is a big role and the two could be related, but i think its just a follow the leader situation. In china learning is more important than love lmao 

Yeah man i just found out about tani like a month ago, but i simply think its just cause black americans simply dont care (i'm black and african). And i mean they really dont care about chess or its benefits. Its just a dumb board game. Too make chess popular in the black community all you gotta do is find away to get alcohol and money mixed into it, or turn chess into gambling or something, then theyd care. But even then they wont take the game to the extremes of being a gm and its saddening but if they dont care, i do, and ill just continue to learn and play. Its just a board game to them, and there has to be a point behind it. If not its rendered useless.

See this was racist lol not my post lmao

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Personally, I don't think of chess as a challenging problem-solving activity that sharpens one's analytical or mental abilities. least, not any longer. 

It's mainly because of the pattern recognition. 

 

To me, it’s just a specific category of skill. If I keep training for chess, I will only improve at chess. I think our mind is just a pattern recognition machine. If we train ourselves to recognize the patterns of chess, we will only improve in chess and not in other skills. If you invest the same amount of time in other skills, you will specifically improve in those skills.

Chess is also not an ego-crushing game for me like it used to be. At this point, it has become a habit of mine. If I don't play chess, I don’t feel good. It has nothing to do with winning or losing. It's just a useless habit that contributes no quality to my life.

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Let me just offer a quick thought as a female -- when I first started playing chess I had no idea that it was male-dominated; I thought chess.com was 50% female. It wasn't until months later that I found out.

If I had known how male-dominated chess was from the outset, I think it would have put me off, just as a subconscious thing -- it just makes me feel, instinctively, like I will be less welcome.

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warlard69420 wrote:
spicychickenboba wrote:

Let me just offer a quick thought as a female -- when I first started playing chess I had no idea that it was male-dominated; I thought chess.com was 50% female. It wasn't until months later that I found out.

If I had known how male-dominated chess was from the outset, I think it would have put me off, just as a subconscious thing -- it just makes me feel, instinctively, like I will be less welcome.

Everyone is welcome to play. 

An environment can be unwelcoming without people who aren't affected being aware of it.

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warlard69420 wrote:
spicychickenboba wrote:

Let me just offer a quick thought as a female -- when I first started playing chess I had no idea that it was male-dominated; I thought chess.com was 50% female. It wasn't until months later that I found out.

If I had known how male-dominated chess was from the outset, I think it would have put me off, just as a subconscious thing -- it just makes me feel, instinctively, like I will be less welcome.

Everyone is welcome to play. 

 

Shouldn't pander to it lol

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OP is an obvious troll

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Prove it, punk

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Because you can't become a millionaire easily playing chess, once it becomes profitable then women will show up, just like Marvel and DC movies nowadays

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Guy’s it’s time for a coffee break, with doughnuts 🍩 and popcorn 🍿✌️😎
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Btw the intelligence shown on this thread , is just so frightening ! 🙀
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Who cares?
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According to what I remember, Scishow had debunked the myth that there is a difference between male and female brain and according to biologist standpoint they are the same and can't be differentiated from one another if you compare both of them side by side from each other. But, there are still many thing's we don't know from human brains and scientists are still fascinated at each breakthrough's they discovered and are easily corrected from their assumptions regarding this thing. So, until all of thing's are cleared, we still have to sit back and stay tuned on what other mind boggling discoveries our expert's on their leading fields will unravel. For now, let us give all people equal right whoever they are so that the community will grow healthy by having large amount of diversity to interact from one another ideas and conservation of cultures with proper transcendence of knowledge through time.

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spicychickenboba wrote:

Let me just offer a quick thought as a female -- when I first started playing chess I had no idea that it was male-dominated; I thought chess.com was 50% female. It wasn't until months laterthat I found out.

 

Unpossible! According to OP all females (checks notes) are evolutionarily given to nurturing mens or some waffle. 

But seriously , thanks for sharing your experience.

 

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AnRun wrote:
spicychickenboba wrote:

Let me just offer a quick thought as a female -- when I first started playing chess I had no idea that it was male-dominated; I thought chess.com was 50% female. It wasn't until months laterthat I found out.

 

Unpossible! According to OP all females (checks notes) are evolutionarily given to nurturing mens or some waffle. 

But seriously , thanks for sharing your experience.

 

 

7 brown-nosing posts from this one.

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AnRun wrote:
Problem5826 wrote:
AnRun wrote:
spicychickenboba wrote:

Let me just offer a quick thought as a female -- when I first started playing chess I had no idea that it was male-dominated; I thought chess.com was 50% female. It wasn't until months laterthat I found out.

 

Unpossible! According to OP all females (checks notes) are evolutionarily given to nurturing mens or some waffle. 

But seriously , thanks for sharing your experience.

 

 

7 brown-nosing posts from this one.

Seven? Where in this thread have I made seven posts "brown nosing " anyone?

Where's the ruthless logic? Don't be so emotional.

 

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Laskersnephew wrote:
When you hear a man refer to women as “females,” you don’t have to waste your time reading the rest

 

He didn't. He used the adjective 'female' which is perfectly sound. What's the alternative; v*ginary?

But his preposition does seem heavily based on assumption and prejudice rather than science.

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Mike_Kalish wrote:
TheNameofNames wrote:

women spend more time nurturing men spend more time in a ruthless competitive setting i.e capitalism the world is corrupt is what im saying

Punctuation!.....is what I'm saying.

 

Then may I remind you that three or four-dot ellipses are the only correct forms of the ellipsis in English. Just a tip from a writer happy.png
I mean, if you are going to correct someone, do it correctly.

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zone_chess wrote:
Mike_Kalish wrote:
TheNameofNames wrote:

women spend more time nurturing men spend more time in a ruthless competitive setting i.e capitalism the world is corrupt is what im saying

Punctuation!.....is what I'm saying.

 

Then may I remind you that three or four-dot ellipses are the only correct forms of the ellipsis in English. Just a tip from a writer
I mean, if you are going to correct someone, do it correctly.

I was going to say this but i didnt think it was important enough lol

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There are plenty of articles describing the deifferences between our brains "on average" its stupid to think ill beat judit polgar yet shes a woman, it basically worthless statistics for that reason 

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Laskersnephew wrote:
When you hear a man refer to women as “females,” you don’t have to waste your time reading the rest

"Female" is the more accurate word for this context.