Monday, December 7, 2015

Thus Spoke Judit

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/on-the-black-and-white-battlefield-with-the-worlds-greatest-fema/
Chess has long been a sport plagued by charges of sexism. Earlier this year, British Grandmaster Nigel Short drew blood on the black-and-white battlefield by declaring that female players simply don’t have the right brains for the game. They are, he said, “hard-wired very differently”; comments which echoed his Russian chess rival, Garry Kasparov’s controversial assertion that “women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters”. [Read more].

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