Moving Toward Elimination of the Parallel & Separate Women's Chess System?
I see the day coming, and I think it is not that far off, when we will no longer need an entirely parallel and separate women's system, with separate women's titles.
Its past and current existence as an incubator system is legitimate.......the chess culture has not been friendly to women, to having them develop talent to the elite level, to having them participate in large numbers at the class level, due to many societal/cultural/discriminatory conditions. But the slow entry of women at both levels is increasing at a faster rate now. Soon there will be reached a sort of critical mass. Then it will start to snowball.
This does not mean I am against "Women-Only Tournaments". Women like to play against each other; they feel the tournament atmosphere is somewhat different than in a gender-neutral tournament, and they like it......so why would there not be such a tournament.....we have junior and senior tournaments to meet their multi-faceted chess needs. And there is no reason there could not be neighbourhood tournaments, much the way we organize national closed championships. All these are legitimate, and enhance chess, and make it more inviting to many.
Bob A
Originally posted by Paul Bonham
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Its past and current existence as an incubator system is legitimate.......the chess culture has not been friendly to women, to having them develop talent to the elite level, to having them participate in large numbers at the class level, due to many societal/cultural/discriminatory conditions. But the slow entry of women at both levels is increasing at a faster rate now. Soon there will be reached a sort of critical mass. Then it will start to snowball.
This does not mean I am against "Women-Only Tournaments". Women like to play against each other; they feel the tournament atmosphere is somewhat different than in a gender-neutral tournament, and they like it......so why would there not be such a tournament.....we have junior and senior tournaments to meet their multi-faceted chess needs. And there is no reason there could not be neighbourhood tournaments, much the way we organize national closed championships. All these are legitimate, and enhance chess, and make it more inviting to many.
Bob A
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