Chess master Carissa Yip, who at age 11 became the youngest female ever to defeat a grandmaster, plays a match at the chess club in Billerica, Mass. In a commentary for a chess magazine, British chess Grandmaster Nigel Short appealed to neuroscience to support his claim that women's brains are "hard-wired" in a way that predisposes females to have less innate chess aptitude than their male counterparts....
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