Men vs. Women: Chess

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Men vs. Women: Chess
Watching Rogan's interview with Riley Gaines & Rogan brought up that there are no female world champion chess players

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women are better schemers and planners, so that "should" make them much better chess players.

problem is, women are also very impatient so that hampers them and they get frustrated and start to make mistakes, and that is why you dont see women at the top of chess matches

If you put them on a full distribution, you'd find exactly that.

from the 25th to 75th percentile, its very likely women would predominate decisively over men.

The bottom quartile and top quartile both would be overwhelmingly male-- the moreso you got to each end of the distribution.

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IIRC men and women have essentially the same average IQ but women's is more clustered around the mean, while men have more outliers at both ends of the distribution curve. More geniuses = more chess grandmasters.

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Not just that but in general men are more competitive and endure stress better than women.

Magnus Carlsen is defeated in 19 moves by Judit Polgár

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The Queen's Gambit? It was pretty good

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very overrated chick

One thing about chess and some other non-strength competitions you have to take into account is the number of girls that ever take up the pursuit. This alone gives men an advantage.

While that does give men an advantage it likely isn't the main and certainly not the only reason. The top-ranked women are just outside the top 100 men's ranking and the way chess ELO is determined is more or less an apples-to-apples comparison. Interestingly, 4 of the top 5 women players are from China, a place where they identify good players early and push them.

I would also suspect that the bell curve for dispassionate, pure strategic thinking for men is centered around a larger mean than for women (which seems to be a valuable evolved trait if you need to get the warriors in your tribe to take the resources of another), just as I suspect the bell curve for empathetic, compassionate thinking for women is centered around a larger mean than for men (which seems to be a valuable evolved trait if you want to successfully raise an infant into adulthood).

I might be wrong, but the hypothesis feels like it at least has internal logic to it. So if some of those evolved traits filter into making men better, at the extremes, than women at this one, small, meaningless game, then I can’t imagine why anyone would ever have a problem with it.

So of course, some nutjob will inevitably call the whole sport sexist

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this one, small, meaningless game

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Chess >>> NBA

she was a stale mate?
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