Posted on 08/24/2023 6:21:44 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Officials in the global chess world have found themselves in a bind after unveiling new guidelines for transgender players.
Many said the new rules from the International Chess Federation are "transphobic" They were introduced on Aug. 15.
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That’s not the point according to dem;-)
Have 3 Female , Male and Transcrazy
I can see separating chess players by age or by rating. But why should gender be an issue in chess? It’s not weightlifting. Just let anybody play against anyone else.
Nope. Not transphobic. They’re pro-woman.
A PHOBIA is an unwarranted or irrational FEAR.
We’re not AFRAID of queers and trannys. We do have a healthy disgust for their BEHAVIOR.
If they’d keep their perversions private, nobody would know to despise them.
It’s chess. Gender has nothing to do with it, unless the pieces are exceptionally heavy at the world class level.
Big Bump!
Pretending that homosexuality is normal is causing all sorts of problems.
Chess is divided into an “open” section and a womens section. The open section takes everybody. Women can and do play in the open. One women has made it to 8th in the world (Judit Polgar is now retired). But its rare for a women to be in the top 100. Recently there have been 3 women in the lessor half of the top hundred. Clearly there is something about the women’s physiology that makes it harder to play at the very highest levels. Its possible that chess itself is a better test of male intelligence than of women’s intelligence. Women win poker tournaments all the time. Even though women don’t often choose to play poker. Those that do, can play quite well against men. But chess is different. Few women choose to play chess but the best women never win world level open tournaments.
So tranys have every right to play in the open. If they feel sexy, they have a place to play. But they cannot play in the place reserved for physical women. Because they are not physical women no matter how they feel. The rest of us feel they belong in the open.
“It’s chess. Gender has nothing to do with it,”
True, but sitting across from a guy dressed like a girl would be distracting. I’ve seen poker players do it. They dress loud, or if a woman, wear a very low cut blouse to distract their opponents. I would not play chess, nor engaged in any manner with a tranny or any other obviously insane person.
Severely mentally ill, delusional people rarely achieve intellectual fame. It’s a fact of life; that is, it is reality. But reality doesn’t “sit well” with the Left.
Actually, males have as much of an advantage over females in chess as they do in weightlifting. If they didn’t separate competition by sex, women would not win championships.
Not true. Males are better at chess - they have to separate the completion by sex or some would not win championships.
This should be the model for all sports: XX only, XY only, and Open.
Why is there men’s and women’s chess?
“But why should gender be an issue in chess? It’s not weightlifting.”
What you say makes logical sense. However, as a matter of fact, women chess players have not played as well as men. The all-time best woman chess player, Judit Polgar, did crack the top ten list. She is the exceptional exception.
Why the disparity between men and women? Perhaps it’s nothing more than that more boys than girls have been attracted to the game. Or, it could be biology. I don’t know. Regardless, women’s tournaments allow women to compete exclusively against one another. It works the same way with junior tournaments, or senior tournaments.
Open tournaments are open to everyone. Judit never competed in women’s tournaments. Instead, she competed in the strongest tournaments. She was strong enough to make it into the top ten.
There are many men who are basically nowhere in the rankings, who would do very well competing as women.
Except in the rankings.
Here's the list of top 10 male and female chess players with their FIDE ratings as of September 2021:
Top 10 Male Chess Players:
Magnus Carlsen (Norway) - FIDE Rating: 2847
Fabiano Caruana (USA) - FIDE Rating: 2820
Ding Liren (China) - FIDE Rating: 2799
Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia) - FIDE Rating: 2792
Levon Aronian (Armenia) - FIDE Rating: 2782
Wesley So (USA) - FIDE Rating: 2774
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) - FIDE Rating: 2760
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan) - FIDE Rating: 2760
Anish Giri (Netherlands) - FIDE Rating: 2759
Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan) - FIDE Rating: 2758
Top 10 Female Chess Players:
Hou Yifan (China) - FIDE Rating: 2610
Ju Wenjun (China) - FIDE Rating: 2585
Aleksandra Goryachkina (Russia) - FIDE Rating: 2579
Kateryna Lagno (Russia) - FIDE Rating: 2559
Mariya Muzychuk (Ukraine) - FIDE Rating: 2544
Anna Muzychuk (Ukraine) - FIDE Rating: 2533
Tan Zhongyi (China) - FIDE Rating: 2515
Nana Dzagnidze (Georgia) - FIDE Rating: 2512
Harika Dronavalli (India) - FIDE Rating: 2509
Elisabeth Paehtz (Germany) - FIDE Rating: 2485
Too many Queens...
This. The extreme-left tards (commies) keep trying to convince the lofos, through this constant propaganda drumbeat, that disgust is the same as fear.
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