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In 2004, 8 of the 894 chess grandmasters in the world were women. Why so few? It's not a matter of ability.
"Where the participation rate of women and men is equal the disparity in ability vanishes." -- Chabris and Glickman
They just don't play chess.
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I believe there is solid evidence backing up the reasons men are better than women at chess.
http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1376865.htm
Posted by: Jim Durbin | Feb 13, 2007 at 10:25 AM
Whatever, Durbin, we already have the king captured... No need to play games. ;)
Posted by: Rosie | Feb 13, 2007 at 07:36 PM