Women’s chess tournaments undermine women in chess
Women’s chess tournaments feed the misogynistic perception that women are intellectually weak.
Nicholas Chrysanthou meets his opponent, Women s Grand Master Carla Heredia, with his fiancee, Sasha Hok, behind him at the start of the afternoon round of matches at the 79th Annual Southwest Chess Open in Irving.
By Aditya Oswal
In a society with increasing equality between the sexes, why do women’s chess tournaments still exist?
Most physical sports separate men and women because men have more upper body strength and leg strength than women. Men and women have virtually no intellectual differences, yet many chess tournaments hold mixed-gender competitions and women-only competitions.
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Each team not only has a captain, but three coaches who will help the players over the course of the 5-month tour.
Surya Ganguly
6-time Indian Champion
Surya Ganguly has worked on Team Anand for World Chess Championship matches and should have some invaluable advice for his players. You can see him at the end of this short clip from the first pre-tour meeting with the players and coaches.
He’ll get to give advice to two young Indian prodigies,
Gukesh, who at the age of 12 years, 7 months and 17 days became the second youngest chess grandmaster in history (just days slower than Sergey Karjakin), and
Koneru Humpy: Chess player is BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year
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BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year winner Koneru Humpy gives advice to young athletes
Chess player Koneru Humpy has won the BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year award for 2020, following a public vote.
The 33-year-old beat sprinter Dutee Chand, airgun shooter Manu Bhaker, wrestler Vinesh Phogat and India hockey captain Rani Rampal to the award.
Humpy is the World Rapid Chess champion having won the title in December 2019 after a two-year maternity break. In 2020, she won the Cairns Cup, an elite-level tournament for the top female players.
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