The world chess federation FIDE recently made the incredibly transphobic and mysogynist ruling to exclude trans women from competing in women’s tournaments, to strip trans men of pre-transition titles and to subject trans people to a two-year long surveilance process that could lead to forced outings. The German and French chess federation have now decided to ignore this ruling. Source in German (mostly with the info from the image): https://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=46744
no more half measures walter
i refuse to tire of this bit
rare german w
germany folded in the wrong direction
especially as the new united Germany just abolished every legal change made over the entire course of East Germany rather than incoporate their changes. Which the more historically minded might predict made the law a lot more bigoted
Why is a chess tournament even separated by gender?
Apparently it’s because male chess players aren’t capable of behaving like adults around women, so they split them by gender to prevent the male players from harassing the female players out of the game entirely.
incredible
The below are goodi answers, but the original answer was that men made it a boys only club and excluded women from competition into the late 1950s, so women made their own tornament.
There aren’t enough top level female players yet. Women’s tournaments draw more money and attention. Plus there are no male-only tournaments.
Women get separate titles to encourage more participation. That way they can get more out of participation besides endeavouring to take titles from men. Alongside what nat_turner is saying about men being weird.
Women get separate titles to encourage more participation
That’s the current line. But its a bit like saying we have women’s restrooms to encourage more participation. Technically true, but it ignores the long and gross history of misogyny that forced the issue.
I’m unfamiliar with it. Unsurprising and sad
Because chess players are by and large incredibly obnoxious towards women, so in order to prevent a huge amount of scandals regarding harassment or worse, FIDE decided to just segregate the tournaments to prevent the male players from having the opportunity to be sex pests.
Because of Heated Gamer Moments. Not really joking. It’s because of
antics and general misogyny going back decades.
Defederation when?
i know it’s been said before but why do separate women’s tournaments for chess even exist
Mostly because chess has a massive problem with mysogynistic bullying and SA. Women’s leagues were a way to counter that and cause less girls to stop playing competitively.
And not too long ago there was an open letter denouncing the rampant abuse and assault that including trans women as signatories. There couldn’t be a more blatant example of transmisogyny’s function in destroying feminist solidarity and defending patriarchy.
idk if the research still holds up, but i believe there’s some studies showing that women, due to stereotype threat caused by the sexist culture and gender imbalances in chess, will often underperform when matched with male players
Wow that’s pathetic. The patriarchy has to ruin board games, too?
How does that even happen? It’s just chess!
Same way it happens with the
Chess players are just Gamers before digitisation.
The most powerful piece in chess is the Queen! Why are gamers like this?
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Not at all surprised that high level chess is full of bigots.
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Based Anti-Putler hero Gary Kasparov!Such a loser take, Kasparov’s job was to move plastic bits on a board, not to be a fighter or an artist lmao
The cope is unreal, you need to be good at memorization for chess and that’s mostly it
Its really not just memorization, there is a lot of creativity and mind games involved at playing at the top level. If it just came down to memorizing stuff computers which play at the same level as top level chess players and top level chess players themselves would play the same way, but they don’t. Computer moves are very obvious.
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Sure, you memorize openings, but it’s nowhere near as superhuman as it sounds. It’s like memorizing different routes to your workplace. Go down the roads often enough and you know where to turn.
IT’S JUST CHESS!
DROP THE BULLSHIT SEXISM!
King me, b*tch
