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In a commentary for a chess magazine, British chess Grandmaster Nigel Short appealed to neuroscience to support his claim that women’s brains are “hard-wired” in a way that predisposes females to have less innate chess aptitude than their male counterparts. In essay titled  "Vive la Différence!” published this week in Chess In News, Mr. Short writes that Dutch chess Grandmaster Johannes Hendrikus Donner, may have “had a point,” when he wrote, “The difference between the sexes is remarkable in chess, but not any more so, to my mind, than any other field of cultural activit...

The Globe and Mail Kenneth Rogoff Published January 22, 2021 Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Kenneth Rogoff is professor of economics and public policy at Harvard University and former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund. In the brilliant and hugely successful 2020 Netflix miniseries The Queen’s Gambit, the chess prodigy Beth Harmon (played by Anya Taylor-Jo...

Queen's Gambit connections ripple across chess community Jennifer Sweet © Mike Heenan/CBC Seven-year-old Andreas Doemer of Saint John is the current national champion in his age group. The wildly popular video drama series The Queen's Gambit has created a tsunami of interest in the game of chess. And New Brunswick has definitely caught the wave.   A beacon of the provincial chess scene has been inundated with phone calls and emails and has a personal connection to the woman the show seems to be based on. © Mike Heenan/CBC John Torrie sets up the board for a lesson in ...