r1- I do not believe the process is unfair. In the world of chess, for a time, chess was somewhat of a ‘national sport’ in Russia. They groomed and tutored promising females assiduously - Russia would have taken great national pride in producing a female champion. Russian male chess champions dominated the game for 50 years from the late 40’s to the early 90’s.
When Ronaldus Magnus caused the collapse of the iron curtain, many emigrated to the US, and parked themselves in NYC. Subsequently, area schools began to win championships:
https://tinyurl.com/ycmcg5xo
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What remains interesting however, is the point of the thread (imo) - WHY is the female brain so far, incapable of such a summit?
To miss m and Mermaid - this is in no way a bash at women. In truth I find your comments interesting and informative on the various subjects we prattle on about here on FR.
In fact I believe these 3 sisters could beat anyone on FR in a game of chess, BLINDFOLDED!
“My Brilliant Brain” is about the Polgar sisters, Susan in particular (@47 min.). Natgeo had her in an fMRI to actually look into the area of her brain she used to process chess problems (it was the ‘facial recognition’ area).
Fascinating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wzs33wvr9E
I recall seeing somewhere that men have longer “tails” on the bell curve. That is, men go out more standard deviations than women. Hence, the smartest men are far better than the smartest women. It works the other way too: the most serious mental cases are men. Perhaps I saw this in book “The Bell Curve”, but don’t have time now to source it fully.
It’s worth noting that the smartest individuals in a nation tend to push it forward. The future success of a nation is largely determined by the outliers, which are almost always men. At the risk of sidetracking this thread, DJT is extremely smart.