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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Which meant if you wanted to prove yourself at the table you couldn't It was not the expectation that anyone who wanted to could prove their merit against anyone else by showing up to a tournament and seeing what happened They could say no
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It was the massive press around the Polgar sisters' success and their insistence on consistently entering the mainstream tournaments rather than bowing to pressure to play in the women's tournaments that ended up making this no longer an acceptable reason to decline a match
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the current top female chess player caused a scandal a couple of years ago because she was in a tournament with men and women, and she'd been matched with women for almost all games, so when they paired her against a woman again she threw the game.
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i misremembered: she threw a game against a lower-rated male player after she'd been paired with 7 women out of the first 9 rounds.https://en.chessbase.com/post/gibraltar-flash …
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