Pestaño: The best female players in history
WHILE reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway dominates the men’s game, Hou Yifan,19, of China does the same for women. She was recently named the Asian Chess Federation (ACF) “Woman Player of...
View ArticleMeet the Polgar who started it all
Susan Polgar must have felt like a movie star at the Hyatt Regency here on Saturday evening. People wanted to take photographs with her and journalists wanted to speak to her. She may not be in the...
View ArticleThe Gender Games, Part 2: Videogames Meet Feminism
In my previous article, I tried to make sense of the “GamerGate” drama, which its detractors have described as a sexist male backlash against women in the videogame culture and which its supporters see...
View ArticleSusan Polgar to wield mike at World Chess Championship
Chennai: The organising committee of the world chess championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen has roped in GM Susan Polgar for the commentary team. Susan, an American GM of...
View ArticleTempest on a chess board Hungarys Polgar disputes UKs Short
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - British chess master Nigel Short has made a bad opening gambit by saying women are inferior at the game, says former Hungarian grandmaster Judit Polgar, who has ......
View ArticleWorld Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad 2014 (World Chess Federation)
(Source: World Chess Federation) Only four months after the Chess Olympiad in Tromso where the greatest chess players of the world competed against each other it is already time to have a look at the...
View Article5 responses to a misogynistic jibe like John Lydon's
Men putting women down in private and in public is a common event. Austin Mitchell, Labour MP for Great Grimsby, tweeted to Louise Mensch when she resigned as a Conservative MP: "Shut up Menschkin. A...
View ArticleHungary's "Chess Palace" helps kids to learn and play
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Ten-year-old Tamas Katona hopes one day to be a chess champion, but in the meantime his love of the game is helping him to master the skills that should help him in school and...
View ArticleTempest on a chess board: Hungary's Polgar disputes UK's Short
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - British chess master Nigel Short has made a bad opening gambit by saying women are inferior at the game, says former Hungarian grandmaster Judit Polgar, who has defeated the Briton...
View ArticleGrandmaster Nigel Short: 'Women are not as skilled as men at chess'
A British grandmaster has been criticised by female chess players for suggesting women were not substandard at the game because their brains are...
View ArticleChess Grandmaster Says There Is Gender Inequality In The Game Because Men And...
British chess grandmaster Nigel Short is responding to criticism after recently arguing that inherent differences in men's and women's brains may explain why there are fewer female chess champions than...
View ArticleChess champion slammed for saying women are not as good as men at the game
WITW Staff 04.20.15 Fabrizio Costantini/The New York Times Nigel Short, a former chess world title challenger from Britain has caused some courted controversy by claiming that rather than “fretting...
View ArticleChess grandmaster who lost to a woman says men have bigger brains
If British chess grandmaster Nigel Short’s theory is correct, the queen better leave the driving to the king. It’s not that woman are inferior. No. They just have smaller brains, Short said in an...
View ArticleNigel Short says men 'hardwired' to be better chess players than women
UK grandmaster provokes anger and derision with suggestion we should ‘gracefully accept’ that men are more able to play at high competitive level ...
View Article'Girls don't have the brains to play chess' says grandmaster Nigel Short
Nigel Short has come under fire for his comments on women playing chess. Photo: Facebook When Nigel Short, one of UK's greatest ever chess players, challenged Garry Kasparov for the world title in 1993...
View ArticleWomen's brains not 'hard-wired' for chess: grandmaster Nigel Short
Nigel Short has come under fire for his comments on women playing chess. Photo: Facebook When Nigel Short, one of UK's greatest ever chess players, challenged Garry Kasparov for the world title in 1993...
View ArticleNigel Short slammed by leading female chess players for saying women are not...
Former chess world title challenger Nigel Short has been condemned by leading female players after claiming “we should just gracefully accept” that women are not as good as men at the game - or...
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