"at early medieval baby showers noble ladies received postpartum chess sets."https://mobile.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/books/power-play.html …
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Chess developed through a period of being a pastime for court ladies. Curious gender roles in chess: how did we get to today's player skew?https://twitter.com/essell2/status/921028314730557441 …
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Honestly I don't see how this is different than today's world of video games where you can choose a Xena-like avatar
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Disappointed OP couldn't describe King's relative uselessness in terms besides "damsel"
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Contrast with Go, which is basically the Borg.
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What does that mean? (The Borg?)
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Individual pieces do not matter, and are indistinguishable. Even large groups are sacrificed if the need arises.
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Ah yes - I was trying to sort out what relationship Go *players* have to being like the Borg
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This is vaguely, but not really, like the gender skew among chefs, except there the medieval and modern coexist in some sense.
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The medieval prevalence of chess among women has an analog in the vast amount of labor women put in (almost always unpaid!) cooking at home.
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In both cases, there's an element of perceived value: chess players and professional chefs are people one *wants* to be, rather than ...
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... finds oneself being.
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It’d be useful to look at the skew in xiangqi, since it provides an interesting alternative history. Couldn’t find the numbers though
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