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Much like en passant, the replies are forced (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/[email protected]

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[–] blubton 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't mind seeing the country name uncensored, but it is a tradition in chess to not only be sexist, but also racist (at least against one country)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

sexist

What do you mean? And to which gender?

[–] blubton 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It is getting a lot better, but traditionally chess was a game for men only. Until the 2000s women were seen as inferior by most top players, like Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov (AKA Gary Chess, inventor of chess). Right now 95 percent of members of the Dutch chess federation is men. In my local chess club the average ratio men/women is provably like 90/10, with the difference between children being a lot less than adults.

If you haven't seen it, the series "The Queens Gambit" does a pretty good job portraying the difference between men and women at the top of chess: maybe one woman, hundreds of men.

The gender gap is coming down, but it is still there.

Also, pro chess players only sacrifice their queens, but not their kings. I do both

[–] Rainb0wSkeppy 2 points 8 months ago

i en passant their kings