I just love how the OP is so out of touch with what Nigel actually intended. It's a definite possibility that women are not as good at chess as men.
However, hyper-feminism and political correctness running rampant (the bi-product being the OP's line "MR... "women have tiny brains and only good for making sandwiches and babies") have made Nigel's statements deemable to considered offensive.
The article has a good deal of logic and reason with it.
I'm surprised about how people are treating Short's statements as a discrimination claim, rather than a scientific or sociological claim. Very sad to see this.
Carissa Yip is coming for you from elementry school MR... "women have tiny brains and only good for making sandwiches and babies"
Poor child! Childhood she is spoiled!
The 11-year-old became the youngest female in the United States history to earn the title of chess master. When she beat Gransmaster Alexander Ivanov last fall at the New England Open, Carissa became the youngest female in the world ever to defeat a grandmaster.
She has competed everywhere from Slovenia to the United Arab Emirates. Like the legendary chess prodigy Bobby Fischer, Carissa learned to play at age 6.
When Carissa knows she’s winning, her eyes narrow and a look of glee floods her face. A sideways grin forms. Her opponents don’t always see it coming, but that face symbolizes the end is near. Her focus is always six, eight, 10 moves ahead of her opponent.
“It’s a challenging game and I like that about it,” she says. “I prefer to play with someone who’s actually good … and I also like the pretty pieces.”
March 6 Carissa Yip sits across from Godin and the clock starts. Blitz chess. She waits. She strikes the timer, her plastic wristwatch peeking from under her sleeve. Godin puts his head on his hands and counters. The pint-sized chess master calls his move “cheesy.” At another point, she mutters, “You saw that coming to you beeeeouch man.”
Still, sometimes reactions from the grown-ups she defeats aren’t as mature as they could be. She remembered one of her first tournaments and a particularly unhappy competitor who did not like losing to a 7-year-old girl.
“He threw a temper tantrum,” Carissa says. He shouted that he hated playing against kids.
“You lost to a little girl,” her father recalls thinking to himself. “Why are you yelling at her? You should be ashamed.”
she is known among peers and masters alike as "The Alien" which helps them account for her focus, depth, and pure calculation at the board.
"I just like to win" Losing, she says, makes her feel "empty".
Carissa has said she wants to be a world champion chess player, a professional golfer, and a policewoman. Her mind flits, finding new interests, as sixth graders do. If a chess game bores her, she gets up and wanders around the table. Her father scolds her for not sitting still.
At a tournament recently she watched a man perform magic tricks and begged him to teach her. She couldn’t bear not understanding.
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