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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- Rachel Halliwell, On the black-and-white battlefield with the world’s greatest female chess player, The Telegraph, December 5, 2015
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