Let's talk about women in competitive games

10-30-2015 07:38 PM #1
a500lbgorilla View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message View Blog Entries SPLENDID GUY Join Date Sep 2004 Posts 28,082 Location himself fucker.	Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla There was some guy that minted chess masters out of his kids, 2 boys and 1 girl I think. While the girl was the first female chess grandmaster, I think she peaked at like number 10 in the world. https://www.psychologytoday.com/arti...ter-experiment I read that the girl re-purposed the area of her brain that recognized faces to recognize board patterns and knew what moves to make following, though if she was presented with a novel arrangement, she was markedly slower at figuring out her following moves. They were all chicks apparently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Polgar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Polgar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r Their pops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A...B3_Polg%C3%A1r The best of them peaked at no 8 in the world.
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10-30-2015 08:20 PM #2
spoonitnow View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message View Blog Entries Resident Asshole Join Date Sep 2005 Posts 14,219 Location North Carolina	Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla They were all chicks apparently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Polgar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Polgar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r Their pops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A...B3_Polg%C3%A1r The best of them peaked at no 8 in the world. That's who I was talking about earlier in the thread.
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10-30-2015 08:26 PM #3
spoonitnow View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message View Blog Entries Resident Asshole Join Date Sep 2005 Posts 14,219 Location North Carolina	Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla They were all chicks apparently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Polgar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Polgar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r Their pops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A...B3_Polg%C3%A1r The best of them peaked at no 8 in the world. Unrelated, but Susan Polgar is a fucking cunt. I worked on a team with her and her husband (who is also a cunt) on some projects around 2004-2007 or so. They were both kicked out of the US Chess Federation in 2008-2009 after pulling a bunch of scumbag moves. Edit: Fun fact, but back in the mid-late 80s, the international governing body for chess decided to just add an extra 100 rating points on to the ratings for all of the active women chess players to make things "fair."
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