I'm all for gender equality and equal opportunity myself, but given the facts it would appear that opportunity is no substitute for capability.
Women have had enough and more time to storm the male dominated bastions of chess, (women have been liberated since the 60's?) but they haven't now have they? Come now, what's a more equal opportunity sport than chess? Why, a repressed Afghani woman from behind a purdah, should be able to do as well as any man if she wanted to. This is pure brain vs. brain, we're talking about. Yet the only ones to make a reasonable splash in the last ten years were the Polgar sisters, Judith being the most promising. Of the top 100 GMs in the sport how many are women? One? Now what are you going to attribute this brutal statistic to?
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I'm all for gender equality and equal opportunity myself, but given the facts it would appear that opportunity is no substitute for capability.
Women have had enough and more time to storm the male dominated bastions of chess, (women have been liberated since the 60's?) but they haven't now have they? Come now, what's a more equal opportunity sport than chess? Why, a repressed Afghani woman from behind a purdah, should be able to do as well as any man if she wanted to. This is pure brain vs. brain, we're talking about. Yet the only ones to make a reasonable splash in the last ten years were the Polgar sisters, Judith being the most promising. Of the top 100 GMs in the sport how many are women? One? Now what are you going to attribute this brutal statistic to?