I had to look it up in the Urban Dictionary.
Unicorn
The rare creature who is able to give you the thing you always wanted but thought you you could never have.
“You fell in love with a unicorn. It was beautiful, then sad, then sadder. I laughed, I cried, I puked in my mouth a little. And honestly, I kind of get it.”
Like the thread about the kid who dressed up like a thief, white culture, ya da ya da ya da, I still don’t get it.
What I meant was that you never, ever see women, good looking or not, at chess tournaments. Ever. They're unicorns, only existing in pictures.
I played for years and years, and can count the number of women I played against on one hand, with a couple of fingers left over. Was fairly friendly with one, she was practical, said that she joined the Chess Team to meet guys.
Made sense to me. She had her pick of horny chess nerds, if that was her thing, more power to her.