More Confusion Over Professional Chess Rules

[Carolyn Marie]

https://www.bbc.com/sport/67127168

 

 

This is all pretty damned murky to me.  "Knocks over White King."  Checkmate.

 

Carolyn Marie

[KayC]

This is just ridiculous!  Why do they even have gender categories in chess to begin with??? 

[Ivy]

It all seems just stupid.

[emeraldmountain2]

Seems the neckbeards want to protect all the m'ladies... /s. Being good at chess does not equal being smart!

[Ivy]

50 minutes ago, emeraldmountain2 said:

Being good at chess does not equal being smart!

Apparently.

[awkward-yet-sweet]

3 hours ago, KayC said:

This is just ridiculous!  Why do they even have gender categories in chess to begin with??? 

Exactly.  I know there are people who get really competitive about any game, but there's nothing physical about chess.  Are they actually arguing that men are smarter than women?  That they somehow have an "unfair advantage" and so a trans girl who was born in a male body might be able to beat the poor under-brained cis girls? Because that seems to be the argument under the argument. 🙄

[Ivy]

1 minute ago, awkward-yet-sweet said:

Because that seems to be the argument under the argument.

Kinda misogynistic, isn't it.

[VickySGV]

All of this, and the Queen is still the most versatile piece on the board??  If you are a piece on the board, the girls have the greater advantage over the guy pieces.  The poor King is a nothing really.  Here again, it is the males having to have super control over women and male ego the real king of the board. 

[awkward-yet-sweet]

1 minute ago, VickySGV said:

All of this, and the Queen is still the most versatile piece on the board??  If you are a piece on the board, the girls have the greater advantage over the guy pieces.  The poor King is a nothing really.  Here again, it is the males having to have super control over women and male ego the real king of the board. 

 

I always thought the pawns were kinda androgynous 🫢

[VickySGV]

4 minutes ago, awkward-yet-sweet said:

I always thought the pawns were kinda androgynous 🫢

Good point.

[emeraldmountain2]

30 minutes ago, VickySGV said:

Here again, it is the males having to have super control over women and male ego the real king of the board. 

Ding, ding, ding!

[Carolyn Marie]

I think it has a lot to do with the anti-trans fervor that has run rampant in the world over the last couple of years.  The people who run professional chess didn't want to be "left out" of that war and found a ridiculous reason to join the fray.  It didn't matter that it was just one player, or no player at all.  Somehow, the few of us who want to play any "sport" are doing so to have an advantage and ruin it for everyone else, and for no other reason.

 

There is a bottom line to all of this; it is discrimination fueled by hate of anything they don't understand.  We are the "other," and must be eliminated.

 

Carolyn Marie

[Ivy]

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/yosha-iglesias-becomes-first-ever?utm_source=substack&publication_id=994764&post_id=140514356&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=k5hac

 

Yosha Iglesias Becomes First Ever Transgender Woman International Master In Chess

[Carolyn Marie]

Great news.  👍  Thanks for posting the update, @Ivy.

 

Carolyn Marie

[Angela Lynn]

I have always wondered why the gender separation. I have heard all the arguments. And think they sound stupid. I am a USCF member and would like to play as a woman, but that is because it would mean they would be recognizing me as a woman. But I am afraid my wife would find out. 

[Ivy]

Welcome Angela Lynn

Barring transwomen in chess just seems weird to me.