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Fide Women’s Grand Prix Collapses into “Chaos” as Players Withdraw
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is one on r/chess: https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/122wakh/fide_womens_...
Are these chess tournos usually this dramatic or was this just an atypical combination of geopolitics seeping into sport and other issues gaining purchase out of the sum of the chaos?
I've been following chess tournaments for around two years now. Usually, they aren't this dramatic. In fact, more often than not, you have no clue what tournament is coming up next as there's little to no promotion happening for these events.
For instance, the FIDE World Chess Championship between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren is starting in about two weeks, and there's hardly any hype related to it. However, once the tournament starts and there are some interesting results, hype gradually builds up. Like when Carlsen lost two back-to-back games against Giri and Abdusattorov, there was quite a bit of interest in the tournament. Or the famous Carlsen vs. Niemann controversy.
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#23why is chess separated by gender? we don't separate by gender other intellectual pursuits, e.g. best author, best director, jeopardy winner, etc. [edit] Just checked Wikipedia, and it turns out Chess mostly isn't separate by gender so I stand corrected: The majority of chess tournaments are open to all participants regardless of gender. Very few, if any, international tournaments are restricted to men, but a few are…
when something is dominated massively by one gender, it becomes unwelcoming to the other. Women's chess tournaments are to encourage more women to get into chess.
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#24why is chess separated by gender? we don't separate by gender other intellectual pursuits, e.g. best author, best director, jeopardy winner, etc. [edit] Just checked Wikipedia, and it turns out Chess mostly isn't separate by gender so I stand corrected: The majority of chess tournaments are open to all participants regardless of gender. Very few, if any, international tournaments are restricted to men, but a few are…
I find it rather puzzling why people seggregate genders even though the idea is to make society more equal? Wouldn't it be much more beneficial for women and men to share the same room so to say.
men and women are not equal
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find it rather puzzling why people seggregate genders even though the idea is to make society more equal? Wouldn't it be much more beneficial for women and men to share the same room so to say.
men and women are not equal
Only when it comes to some biological factors. Most of what we believe separates men from women is learned behavior.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is one on r/chess: https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/122wakh/fide_womens_...
great example of the versatility of the human mind. i was about to pipe the entire article into ChatGPT. exactly like the other comment. but i realized it had screenshots of tweets and instagram posts. people do this in case the original authors changed their mind. ChatGPT can't take images as input (afaik). for a human mind, the text in these screenshots are part of what the article is trying to say. the medium is c…
FWIW, GPT-4 can take images as input.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find it rather puzzling why people seggregate genders even though the idea is to make society more equal? Wouldn't it be much more beneficial for women and men to share the same room so to say.
men and women are not equal
In the context of a discussion about chess, they are.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are these chess tournos usually this dramatic or was this just an atypical combination of geopolitics seeping into sport and other issues gaining purchase out of the sum of the chaos?
I've been following chess tournaments for around two years now. Usually, they aren't this dramatic. In fact, more often than not, you have no clue what tournament is coming up next as there's little to no promotion happening for these events. For instance, the FIDE World Chess Championship between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren is starting in about two weeks, and there's hardly any hype related to it. However, onc…
How is Niemann's lawsuit coming along?
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#29Is there a TL;DR, or is this just a complex clusterfuck? I was expecting standard Ukraine vs Russia issues, but the article goes on to describe what looks like a personal vendetta between two top Kazakh players, safety concerns about travel in Delhi, etc etc.
There is one on r/chess: https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/122wakh/fide_womens_...
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Re: Fide Women’s Grand Prix Collapses into “Chaos” as Players Withdraw
#30why is chess separated by gender? we don't separate by gender other intellectual pursuits, e.g. best author, best director, jeopardy winner, etc. [edit] Just checked Wikipedia, and it turns out Chess mostly isn't separate by gender so I stand corrected: The majority of chess tournaments are open to all participants regardless of gender. Very few, if any, international tournaments are restricted to men, but a few are…
It is not separated by gender. Anyone can compete in the main tournaments. There is then a separate one for women.