[Vaun]

regardless of the highest levels, organized chess education and game play for young children is almost unheard of, nearly everywhere in the US, and I would guess the rest of the world. Its remarkable at how well young kids adapt to chess, and how good they get, so quickly. I would imagine these numbers would change dramatically if more kids were exposed to chess between ages 4-8.

[Horus]

(01-15-2016 10:15 AM)Vaun Wrote:  

regardless of the highest levels, organized chess education and game play for young children is almost unheard of, nearly everywhere in the US, and I would guess the rest of the world. Its remarkable at how well young kids adapt to chess, and how good they get, so quickly. I would imagine these numbers would change dramatically if more kids were exposed to chess between ages 4-8.

In Taiwan, the game of "Go" (sometimes called Chinese chess) is part of the school curriculum.



I don't know the rules and have never played, but I've been told that it requires even more complicated strategy than Western chess.

I would imagine that there would be a lot of benefits for children from learning chess from a young age, including problem solving, strategic thinking, developing longer attention spans, among other things.

[Beyond Borders]

Let's put this out there.

Is there any endeavor that isn't strictly populated by women that is dominated by women?

[Mercenary]

Chess is one of the few games in existence that's both:

a) Not based on chance or probability

and

b) Where it's practically impossible to cheat.



That's why women will always either:

1. Never be interested in it

or

2. Will suck at it.

[Horus]

(01-15-2016 01:16 PM)Beyond Borders Wrote:  

Let's put this out there.

Is there any endeavor that isn't strictly populated by women that is dominated by women?

Synchronized swimming. It's a female-only "sport" in the Olympics, but some faggots men have been fighting for years for the right to participate in the spirit of "equality."

Try your best to watch the photographic stills of these "athletes" from 1:25 and keep a straight face.

However, if it did become an accepted sport for men, men would undoubtedly dominate it.

I wracked my brain to think of a real example, genuinely believing that there must be at least one area where women dominate over men, but I've come up empty handed.

[Days of Broken Arrows]

Go to the 23:20 mark. Hilarious line from the first-ever episode of "Happy Days" (back when it was a clever show, not cartoonish crap).

Nothing of substance to contribute here. I just always mention this whenever anyone brings up chess.

[Matsufubu]

(01-15-2016 01:40 PM)Horus Wrote:  

I wracked my brain to think of a real example, genuinely believing that there must be at least one area where women dominate over men, but I've come up empty handed.

Victimhood Olympics?

[Ocelot]

(01-15-2016 01:16 PM)Beyond Borders Wrote:  

Let's put this out there.

Is there any endeavor that isn't strictly populated by women that is dominated by women?

Consumption.

[AboveAverageJoe]

Yes, men are more intelligent and better at almost everything than women. That doesn't erase the fact that Judit Polgar was the youngest Grandmaster ever at the not even close to legal age of 15. Her book the Tao of Chess is an insightful book based on internalizing principles of the game as opposed to memorizing openings and gambits.

[Paracelsus]

(06-16-2016 05:32 PM)AboveAverageJoe Wrote:  

Yes, men are more intelligent and better at almost everything than women. That doesn't erase the fact that Judit Polgar was the youngest Grandmaster ever at the not even close to legal age of 15. Her book the Tao of Chess is an insightful book based on internalizing principles of the game as opposed to memorizing openings and gambits.

So?

It doesn't change the fact that she constantly pushes for handicaps in favour of women, which, if she was as smart as she's touted to be, she would realise is in fact guaranteed to make women less competitive than men.

[debeguiled]

Yes, there are always wild cards, people who don't fit the mold. That doesn't erase the fact that we generalize for a reason.

[The Man w/ the Golden Gun]

As a tournament chess player myself, can confirm the disparity between men and women in the game.

In the 130+ tournaments I've played, I can count the number of women chessplayers I met on one hand.

Only one of them was hot. I'd throw garbage openings and strategies at her to mess with her and I still won handily.

[Belgrano]

(06-16-2016 05:32 PM)AboveAverageJoe Wrote:  

Yes, men are more intelligent and better at almost everything than women. That doesn't erase the fact that Judit Polgar was the youngest Grandmaster ever at the not even close to legal age of 15.

What are you talking about? It's not even close.

This is a list of the players to become Grandmasters before their 15th birthday:

No. Player Country Age
1. Sergey Karjakin Ukraine 12 years, 7 months, 0 days
2. Parimarjan Negi India 13 years, 4 months, 22 days
3. Magnus Carlsen Norway 13 years, 4 months, 27 days
4. Wei Yi China 13 years, 8 months, 23 days
5. Bu Xiangzhi China 13 years, 10 months, 13 days
6. Samuel Sevian USA 13 years, 10 months, 27 days
7. Richárd Rapport Hungary 13 years, 11 months, 6 days
8. Teimour Radjabov Azerbaijan 14 years, 0 months, 14 days
9. Ruslan Ponomariov Ukraine 14 years, 0 months, 17 days
10. Wesley So Philippines 14 years, 1 month, 28 days
11. Étienne Bacrot France 14 years, 2 months, 0 days
12. Illya Nyzhnyk Ukraine 14 years, 3 months, 2 days
13. M. Vachier-Lagrave France 14 years, 4 months
14. Péter Lékó Hungary 14 years, 4 months, 22 days
15. Jorge Cori Peru 14 years, 5 months, 15 days
16. Hou Yifan China 14 years, 6 months, 16 days
17. Jeffery Xiong USA 14 years, 6 months, 25 days
18. Anish Giri Russia 14 years, 7 months, 2 days
19. Yuriy Kuzubov Ukraine 14 years, 7 months, 12 days
20. Dariusz Świercz Poland 14 years, 7 months, 29 days
21. N. Ngoc Truong Son Vietnam 14 years, 10 months
22. Daniil Dubov Russia 14 years, 11 months, 14 days
23. Ray Robson USA 14 years, 11 months, 16 days
24. Fabiano Caruana Italy 14 years, 11 months, 20 days
25. Yu Yangyi China 14 years, 11 months, 23 days

The only female on that list is Hou Yifan, who's the current women's world champion.
Here are the holders of the record for the youngest ever female to become a grandmaster:

1978 Nona Gaprindashvili Soviet Union 37 years
1984 Maia Chiburdanidze Soviet Union 23 years
1991 Susan Polgar Hungary 21 years
1991 Judit Polgár Hungary 15 years, 4 months
2002 Humpy Koneru India 15 years 1 month
2008 Hou Yifan China 14 years, 6 months

[la bodhisattva]

Women only acknowledge a difference in brain hard-wiring when a man does something wrong.

"More men commit crimes. Little boys are too energetic and inattentive during my 2nd grade lesson plan of sitting quietly and coloring a picture of a Disney warrior princess. We must manipulate their brain chemistry because a male brain is dangerous and unpredictable."

"Men are better chess players, scientists, doctors, artists, writers, etc., etc.." "NO! Everyone is the same! The only reason why women fall short in those areas is because the dozens of federally funded school STEM programs reserved only for girls isn't enough and girls feel like they shouldn't do well in those areas because of patriarchal pressure!!!!!"

[AboveAverageJoe]

I was wrong. Judit Polgar did not write the Tao of Chess a man did. I did read her book but cant recall the name. She was the youngest player ever to become Grandmaster. Her record has been broken since then.

[kbell]

I think she has hit the wall. She used to attractive.

[Suits]

(06-16-2016 07:45 PM)kbell Wrote:  

I think she has hit the wall. She used to attractive.

WNB. WNP.

[The Man w/ the Golden Gun]

There's an opening called the Stonewall...guess I'm going to have to play it exclusively against women from now on

[Leonard D Neubache]

A lot of women that compete in women's events are perfectly aware of their gender's competitive shortcomings. In fact, I'd suspect that women sports(?) competitors are probably more red-pill than the average bitch-on-the-street.

They are also probably higher T than the average douche-on-the-street and are therefore mistaken as feminists.

Just a theory. Anyone care to shoot it down?

[spokepoker]

All that matters for women's sports is the ultimate test.
ie:
women's softball = thick legged linebackers = no boner = don't watch
women's volleyball = hot tits and ass bouncing around = boner = watch

easy.