it requires brains not beauty
Why is this game so male-dominated?

either men are smarter in terms of iq or close to no women play chess. I think it's because close to no women play chess since every chess tournament or club i've been to it's always almost all boys.

doesn’t mean they’re smarter than a woman with a PHD
Smartness is related to education not brain size

Women are smarter...
what a stupid thing to write. imagine if i wrote that men are smarter. or that hindus are smarter. or that gay people are smarter.
statements like this are pandering.
yes, there are differences. trying to automatically accept everything where all minorities are somehow superior in every way does not work. equality means equal.

doesn’t mean they’re smarter than a woman with a PHD
Smartness is related to education not brain size
a larger brain does not equal iq or eq, just as you wrote. it's funny how people think that a large brain equates to knowledge. maybe it's movies of martians with big heads that have influenced many.
It's not necessarily stupid, just simplistic. In general I think there is correlation, but there are lots of other things that go into it, so you can't settle the matter just on size. Not to mention that intelligence is very broad and hard to define.