Archived If Women Are The Intellectual Equals Of Men, Why Do They Need Their Own Chess League? (telegraph.co.uk)
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Archived If Women Are The Intellectual Equals Of Men, Why Do They Need Their Own Chess League? (telegraph.co.uk)
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'To them, the first rule of chess club is that you do not talk about chess club. '
'On top of that, he runs an after school chess club for both the primary and secondary school girls. ', "He's succeeded in angering every woman in the chess world, including Judit Polgar - the world's best female player for 26 years and the only woman to qualify for a World Chess Championship tournament."
'But the problem isn’t that women are worse at chess than men – it’s that there are far, far fewer women chess players. '
'A woman has never won the World Chess Championship (which began in 1886) and only two per cent of all chess grandmasters are female. '
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