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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I guess that's the thing, if she were taking speed then it would actually feel like a performance enhancer, that she's cheating They wanted to go the opposite route, say that she's actually handicapping her skill to keep her emotional demons at bay
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Fun fact, when doping became a big deal at the Olympics etc they talked about whether FIDE should do drug testing The consensus was they shouldn't, because there's no illicit substance that would actually give you an objective advantage
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But they wouldn't have given speed to orphan kids ... giving orphans tranquilizers like they were vitamin supplements is certainly realistic for the 50s ...
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... but the tranquilizers holding down her left brain self criticism so her right brain thinking can run untrammeled is awfully poppy psychology. At least it is held up as an impediment to being world champion level, but I reckon that'd also apply to KY state championship level.
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