mfw chess is more transphobic than fucking starcraft. they’ve managed to outdo the gamers.

are the starcraft pro orgs transphobic? I recall scarlett being fairly successful and high profile 5 or 10 years ago but I haven’t followed the scene much in a long time.

Transgender men must relinquish their women-category titles after transitioning.

From my understanding, AFAICP (assigned female at initial chess playing) get retconned to match their current chess-assigned gender. Anyway, death to FIDE of course.

Chess players are very easy to outsmart. They never expect a pawn to move diagonally 4 spaces and punch them in the face.

I would say this is true of IQ tests as well. Like if you can get training in it and improve then it isn’t about innate intelligence at all

Someone tried teaching me but tbh I don’t really have the attention span for lame and boring things. Games like Catan are way more fun.

No, this goes further than brains. It’s pure essentialism.

These people believe that there is some man-essence that is created during conception and is then projected to onto your body, defining who you are.
Even if you show them brain scans for transpeople that refutes everything they say, it doesn’t matter. This goes all the way back to the idea of immutability of the soul and such nonsense.

Well except for saying transmen aren’t allowed their titles anymore retroactively unless they detransition. I guess cause people would get mad seeing Kai McMichaels listed as a Woman’s Cup Champ in 2016 or something.

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the majority of chess players are middle aged white men with no life and an alcohol problem who actually unironically think that

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Chess has historically been Magic The Gathering before MTG, and so tournaments were full of smelly dudes who snubbed women’s participation and radiated misogyny. The solution at the time was chess affirmative action.

Basically, Chess began as a nobleperson’s game, and both genders were highly rated. In the 17th and 18th century these filted down to the upper-middle classes via the Coffee Shops and Salons (one mostly male, the other gender neutral but mostly female-led) where it became the preferred game of the failson, and from there percolated into the closed gentleman’s clubs of the regency.

After the reaction of the Congress of Vienna, the Salons and Coffee shops were suppressed. Women’s rights, already under attack by wrong-headed “Natural Law” Bourgois Liberals, were sharply curtailed and even reversed due to the politically radical nature of these salons. With Coverture restored and implied property rights sharply curtailed, the upper and upper middle class women who previously led active social lives were removed, save for courtesans.

So chess stopped being a game women played in public, while in the Gentleman’s clubs and the men-only restaurants it became the prime pastime of men with no day job. Chess institutions were formed by men-only institutions, allowed only men to train, and allowed only men to compete. Women eventually formed their own associations as society liberalised in the 1870s/80s, and championships in the late 1920s but these were segregated, underfunded, and regarded as an occasional pastime rather than a full time pursuit.

It wasn’t until the 1960s and women liberation that the idea that women could play Chess competitively even occurred to people, at least outside the Soviet Union. There were legal cases and everything to allow Women to play open tournaments.

There is a case that promoting a womens’ division could be a way to get women as a whole interested in the game, since they’ll have an automatic foothold that way.

Good old misogyny

Society be like

More and more people are saying it

Turns out the game just kind of sucked all along.

The numerous amount of Crypto shills in Chess spaces have been a pretty big giveaway

my impression is that there’s a lot of gamers getting into chess now as well which is pretty awesome (read: cringe)

the only reason men dominate chess is that there are fewer women players overall

as someone in a thread on chess dot com pointed out:

If it was a fact that women generally perform worse in chess than men, we would see a higher ratio of women in the lower elo rating, but that’s not the case at all. Look at FIDE and chess .com statistics, men dominate even the lower elos. This just means that we don’t generally play in chess as much as men, not a problem of intellect.

The initial idea was to promote women in chess, but they don’t promote the events so

Chess used to be full of misogynistic dudes with flaming hot takes about women’s intelligence. Still is but less nowadays. Leagues organized women’s tournaments and ranks to give women a space to play without being harassed by losers