Women and chess

 In a sense, yes. I've noticed how slavish a lot of women can be to what society dictates, whether it's injurious to them or not. Men too, but it seems women are worse. Appalling.

I don't believe in tournaments for women only. In a sense it's demeaning to women by implying that they can't compete with men. Personally, I would rather not have a title at all than have a second class one that implies my gender is dumber than the other one.

If there is a US champion in chess, does that imply that Americans are dumber and cannot compete with other nations ?

And why is this form of  "localized framework" acceptable when it is based on nationality but not when it is based on gender ? 

Surely you people are inserting your own assumptions and interpretations into this. The existence of tournaments for women need not imply anything other than there are tournaments for women. Women might just be interested in competing with other women once a year or so. If women wish to play in such tournaments, it's surely their business.

Do they have tournaments for men only?

 No, silly. Other countries have national champs too. We don't have something called a US World Champian, when there is another real world champ.

 I think there are more females playing chess in Europe than in the USA. I played for 25 years in the US and played maybe 6 games against females in all that time. After moving to Europe I have lost count of how many females I have played since arriving here in Nov 1997.

I have no problem with women only tournaments. Since becoming a senior I am looking forward to playing in Senior events in the US very soon. At long last I have hopes that my opponent in an evening round might be just as tired/sleepy as me at midnight and might even doze off before I do !   With the "kids" as opponents there isnt much chance of this happening.....

You have a US champion who is understood to be a legitimate champion in this venue of competition, regardless of the fact that there is a world champion. If the US champion happens to be also the world's champion, then he/she will be both but we will not need to abolish the US champion title.

Btw and your national federation also issues its own titles, and do we argue that this is demeaning to US players ?

I wonder how many other countries do this ? I know Portugal does as I have also been awarded the NM title by the Portuguese Chess Federation for breaking 2200 FIDE.  I think it makes sense for the US to do it since US players have almost no opportunity to play fide rated chess compared to most other nations, especially nations of Europe.  

But other countries have national champs too, just like I said fer cryen out loud!! We don't have a US WORLD champ, when there is another REAL world champ.

We don't issue national titles, in Montenegro, but we are very small. Also, it's true that it's pretty easy for our players to compete in Fide tournaments, and even in this small town we can wrap up some pretty strong tournaments with GMs from Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania etc.

Okay, there is a junior world champ. Satisfied now ? The junior champ is a GM and competes in non-junior tournaments as well.

 Vivi la stupid.

1.let's put it this way, I'm a boy and I play very positionally

2.Have you checked out the ratio in Russia?

Actually, I'm left-handed and have struggled with a certain amount of dyslexia from time to time. I might like to try playing another leftie to see if he/she makes the same sorts of left-to-right flipping blunders when playing black.

The same is true of most American men. Very few people "get it about chess" in this country. It isn't taught as widely as football, for instance. Regardless of gender, if you don't know the game--whatever the game--you don't get it. A teenage girl may go to a football game to observe the hunks, but if she doesn't understand the game, she won't like watching it on TV.

I think many a man has an ilitest attitude about chess being for men only, and enjoy the idea of women not playing it. Get to feel supereor that way. 

Speaking of juniors chess Carlsen is still a junior but also the highest rated player in the world. I wonder why he doesnt play in the junior world championship and win it as many times as he can ?  Has he ever ? 

In juniors chess you see different competitions for under 21 , under 18 , under 16 etc...... but in seniors you dont see such divisions and the 80 and up crowd must compete with the 60 yr old youngsters !!  Is that fair I ask ?! 

Apparently not, I guess for similar reasons that Judit Polgar didn't like to play in women's events. But we have not abolished junior competitions nevertheless.

I don't think that Polgar would actually have been hurt by obtaining a Woman's World Champion title, or that chess would have suffered as a result.