Sari Caine: Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen's accusations against Hans Niemann mostly drowned out a separate controversy happening in a different corner of the chess world. - NBCNewsTHINK
, said “some people don’t like to hear this, but chess does not fit women properly.” Kasparov went on to say that women were “weaker fighters” and since “chess is the combination of sport, art and science … you can see men’s superiority."he told The New Yorker in 2021
. “I just got older and wiser, and can only apologize that it took as long as it did!” But while such mea culpas are welcome, they are not enough. Polgár and other female players say men routinely treated them as second-class players — even when they won. I also experienced that type of treatment as a former scholastic chess champion who went on to play street chess and teach for decades both in person and online.When some fathers of my students realized I was a woman, they’d drop by the classroom and demand to play.
When some fathers of my students realized I was a woman, they’d drop by the classroom and demand to play. I’d do so without my queen. As early as age 12, when I began coaching chess, male players and other coaches hit on me and even subjected me to physical harassment. My butt was smacked, and womanizing commentary was routinely laughed off.
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