so brave of the Post to publish the courageous "girls be dumb" take, wherein Babs concludes that societal factors can't explain the lack of women grandmasters because The Queen's Gambit "shows, authentically, that any kid is welcome at any chess club."https://nationalpost.com/opinion/barbara-kay-the-glaring-flaw-of-the-queens-gambit-that-no-one-wants-to-mention …
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And even then, like The sad and familiar story of why Polgar retired and stopped rising up through the ranks as the #8 player in the world is that she'd gotten married, had kids, and decided she had to put her family first
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And decided not to make her husband be a single parent whenever she was preparing for a tournament, that she wanted to be an active presence in her kids' childhoods and not miss it
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