2021 US Championship

[Brad Thomson]

You are suggesting to have nothing instead of something. When top woman will start talking about abolishing this system then maybe it will be more serious. Have you guys talked the same about other sports like ice hockey or soccer?

Women are not likely to do this, for as it stands now they are having their cake and eating it too. Hockey, soccer and other such sports are physical as well as intellectual activities, and no one will dispute that men are bigger, stronger and faster than women physically. Women by their nature are not as good at these physcial activities as men, but there is no comparable argument when it comes to chess. For a woman to become a grandmaster with lesser qualifications than men is an insult to the intelligence of women. Again, they only tolerate such insults (those that do) when it plays to their advantage, when it allows them to have their cake and eat it too. Perhaps we should give women degrees in medicine and licenses to practice medicine with a lower set of standards than men? That would certainly encourage their participation! Chess should face modern reality and abolish women-specific programs, all of us are equally capable of playing chess. Or, the chess world should come right out and state that women by nature are not as good at chess as men. The double standard is both sexism and hypocricy at their finest.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

What I am against is a whole, separate, parallel, title system for women........it's day has come, and was needed, and it is now time to jettison it

You are suggesting to have nothing instead of something. When top woman will start talking about abolishing this system then maybe it will be more serious. Have you guys talked the same about other sports like ice hockey or soccer?

[Brad Thomson]

I am on record as suggesting that Women's chess programs are sexist unless we are prepared to state that women by their nature are not as good at chess as men.

[Bob Armstrong]

Initially, it is my view that a separate women's system was necessary for many reasons, but as an incubator system.......to allow them to develop and then join in the non-gender system.

There has been some progress in the beating back of misogyny in chess - I think enough that women no longer, at the adult level, need a separate title system. Women will only join the top rank of non-gender chess when they must play the best ALL the time.

I am also not against women-only tournaments - they are fine; maybe women find their atmosphere more to their liking than the atmosphere at non-gender tournaments.

What I am against is a whole, separate, parallel, title system for women........it's day has come, and was needed, and it is now time to jettison it.

Bob A

[Brad Thomson]

Are the women eligible to play for the "men's" money if they are good enough players? Are the men eligible to play for the women's money?

[Neil Frarey]

Seen the prize fund distribution?

195k for men

100k for women

Over the course of eleven rounds, twelve competitors will battle for $194,000 in prize money ($100,000 in the women’s tournament),

This shit ... the degrading of women ... will never end unless spineless chess feds such your FIDE ass kissing Chess Federation of Canada ... WAKE THE FUCK UP!

[Hans Jung]

It will be great further advertising for Jacob Aagaard's training methods if Sam Shankland does win.

[Connor Gherasim]

wonder if shanky can repeat his miracle run this time around

[Hans Jung]

https://en.chessbase.com/post/us-cha...s-2021-preview US Championship starts tomorrow.