IMO It is because women aren't as aggressive as men(naturally).
Our 'chess play' directly reflects our personalities, and our character. I've noticed MOST women play VERY defensively. While 'this style of play' can do just fine in chess, if you look at the best players ever, they ALL go straight for the jugular EVERY time(an instinct that mostly only 'the hunter' has).
brilliant pic, marcosite! balloon balaclavas! excellent!
chessplayers aren't aggressive! sitting at a table dweebing! come on! what do you call somebody swinging nunchakus in your face ?
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Perhaps the question is, Why Do More Men Than Women Worry About Chess Success?
-Marcosite
Indeed!
Interestingly enough, this whole argument seems to attract male proponents only. It would seem to me that female chess players don't give a damn about this thread....
Manipulative? Mind games? That's how you call getting your balls kicked (and I bet it was deserved)?
And, in a serious note, even if you are right, what's the point on manipulating plastic or wood?
I usually answer: "you always look worse when you are clothed". Experience is underrated.
Women are nurturers. Women are designed by nature to protect not slaughter. Also, women can only reproduce once a year, upon the birth of their child women are built to raise the child to full fruition. The average man can reproduce a few to several times a day, and has a mindset evolved around hunting down and killing large meaty animals(vs nursing a child from his nipples).
It is not a question of "who is better, and why?" But one of "who is better suited for chess dominance and why?"
Ido not accept the premise of this thread!
If you check out the children's sections of chess clubs there are just as many young girls as boys, and the average standard does not differ much between the sexes. But by age 14 or 15 the majority that remain are boys. Most of the girls haveing lost interest.
I suspect that relative to the small number that goes on to study chess more seriously, women actually each a higher average standard than men.
Interestingly enough, this whole argument seems to attract male proponents only. It would seem to me that female chess players don't give a damn about this thread....
Ahem... The OP is admittedly a girl.
Ido not accept the premise of this thread!
If you check out the children's sections of chess clubs there are just as many young girls as boys, and the average standard does not differ much between the sexes. But by age 14 or 15 the majority that remain are boys. Most of the girls haveing lost interest.
I suspect that relative to the small number that goes on to study chess more seriously, women actually each a higher average standard than men.
As I said a few pages ago: when puberty hits, female chess development stalls when compared to male development. And of those who go on to study chess more seriously, it is the males who have a higher average rating. It's not a matter of opinion.
What a lot of nonsense!
That would be an opinion.
@Azukikuru - it is not development that stalls, it is interest in chess that stalls. Most girls come to study chess becouse their parents bring them to train, not becouse they would have any interest in it by themselves. So as soon as they grow up they find something like 12346579789 more interesting and important things to do in their life. So most girls drop out of professional chess as soon as they reach 18-20 years age. They get married, have children and don't give a slightest about chess anymore. But it doesn't mean that they aren't capable - they are just not interested anymore. The few ones who remain to continue to train show not worse results than men per time involved, but this is why statistic shows poor results for woman in overall, if you only count the total number.
@BigKingBud your opinion is flawed in a way that nature does not support your claims about females being softer in character. Even for dogs, the female ones are the more aggressive and known to be better suited for guarding territories. Female lions are better hunters as well, while their males are just slackers. The nature has given to females a killer instinct that is needed to guard their children. Clearly you haven't witnessed yourself with how much ferocity professional woman players beat down their opponents - often really thrilling to watch.
As I said a few pages ago: when puberty hits, female chess development stalls when compared to male development. And of those who go on to study chess more seriously, it is the males who have a higher average rating. It's not a matter of opinion.
Yes it is opinion, Azukikuru. It's speculation you're trying to pass off as fact. I didn't start really playing chess until I started living with a guy who became obsessed with the game. And that was when I was in college. Then I really learned it by just playing my hand-held electronic chess game and playing takebacks all the time. I learned the patterns that beat the chess game and then learned how to win and draw people by playing so much that I learned the patterns. It's just a game of pattern-memory like a lot of games. Aikki is much closer to the truth than your speculations. It's all about interest, and the few people who become the masters of chess are individually unique and work harder than the rest of us;)
I have to disagree with you...women are just as intelligent as men and..to be quite honest moreso...there just are not enough women playing chess compared to men...they have the advantage of distraction when she is attractive and shows cleavage...it all involves on focus and strategy...