The world’s top chess federation has ruled that transgender women cannot compete in its official events for females until an assessment of gender change is made by its officials.

The world’s top chess federation has ruled that transgender women cannot compete in its official events for females until an assessment of gender change is made by its officials.

    • jsveiga@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1288·
      11 months ago

      Chess at pro level is brutal. One can get mentally mauled if the adversary has a superior, trained for cruel psychological warfare, mind.

      Men just don’t stand a chance.

    • _wintermute@lemmy.world
      English
      8529·
      11 months ago

      Because the whole idea of gendered leagues in games that ultimately don’t matter at all is about segregation and control, not physiology.

      Bring on the down votes from the “but muh sports 'tegridy!” clowns.

      Edit: some of yall need a class on statistics lol

      • maino82@lemmy.caEnglish
        24·
        11 months ago

        All of the pieces. On both sides of the board. Mentally it’s much more taxing keeping track of which pieces are yours. We guys have it really easy with the whole black/white pieces.

        • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          Actually women are just better at seeing colour and for them what looks like the same pink to us is actually 17 different shades.

      • crowsby@lemmy.mlEnglish
        123·
        11 months ago

        And on average, they only start out with 80% of the pieces of the men’s set.

    • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      405·
      11 months ago

      Have you met chess bros?

      I can see why women would want their own league.

    • Deestan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      237·
      11 months ago

      It doesn’t in principle, and it’s not really either.

      There is the main league, which is open for everyone, and an extra league for women only to offset the male dominance of the main league.

      Why they feel the need to exclude trans women from that I have no idea. Even many of the physical sports allow trans women under certain conditions and only to prevent any unfair advantage due to increased muscle growth during puberty.

    • superkret@feddit.deEnglish
      162·
      11 months ago

      Because otherwise women couldn’t currently compete beyond the local level. But I don’t have an explanation for the difference in playing levels beyond the fact that much fewer women seem to be interested in playing Chess competitively.

    • who8mydamnoreos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      126·
      11 months ago

      So women can play chess without the added mental burdens that come along with being a women in a male dominated space.

    • ex_redditor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43·
      11 months ago

      It’s not gendered. If there is a female super GM she will be invited to the most prestigious tournaments. But there isn’t any… and that’s a whole other debate

    • whataboutshutup@discuss.onlineEnglish
      47·
      11 months ago

      Women gated off their league because every their move is commented on as a female one. They can’t fail for it’s deepens the stereotype of women=stupid and they can’t win for it’s just man wasn’t paying attention or played easy for her. The lack of women chess clubs and championships, the stereotype of it being not a sport for women is why there aren’t many high ELO players in this isolated and weird situation.

      One of the last strongholds of a fragile male nerd supremacy, that’s all.