Why women are not good at chess

Question

Why women are not good at chess

Answer 1

cuz chess sucks!! and is the most boreing game ever and same w/ checkers... i can't stand those games they shouldn't even be called games cuz they're so so boreing!

Answer 2

We have better things to do with our time, like jobs and babies.  Try it.

Answer 3

chess is for geeks, women are not geeks. duhh!

Answer 4

lazy

Answer 5

well girls are good at chess i got my but kicked by one(which rely sucked)  acully to be honest i think girls are smarter but we are stronger...

Answer 6

They can be good...

That's like saying why guys can't play volleyball. It has no logical sense.

Answer 7

Because unlike men, we don't sleep and eat all day.  

Answer 8

Um until about 1970 the idea that woman should do more than stay home and run the house was crazy IN THE US.

In parts of the World Women cannot show their faces; yet you wonder why there is no Iranian Women's chess team?:)

In the West, a.k.a. the sane world, in what,  about 40 years, we have the Polgar sisters and what's her name, that Swedish chick.  After 40 years of it supposedly being spread down from gentlemen of leisure like Staunton, we had one freakishly great (Morphy) and were waiting for Steinz.

Answer 9

That is a bunch of bull.

Answer 10

they can play good at chess. maybe they are not much interested in playing that board game.

Answer 11

Men, in general, are better with spatial relationships than women. That's a big "in general," since I'm sure there are female chess players out there that can beat most men.

Also, boys are encouraged more from a young age to play strategic games like chess. Girls are not. When I was a kid, the games marketed to girls were things like Mall Madness and Pretty Pretty Princess.Games like Battleship were marketed to boys, which at least have some strategy involved. I had a chess board as a kid, but no one in my family offered to play with me so I never learned. I also find it difficult (then and especially now) to see more than a couple moves in advance.

I think in this case, nurture outweighs nature. In my opinion, if girls were raised differently they would be very good at chess.

Answer 12

I know two girls in particular that could most likely whup up your little behind in chess, Generalizations of this sort are rude and very predjudice.

Answer 13

Women are good at chess. Here are a few specific examples:

these women have USCF Senior Master ratings (over 2400).

That means that unless you play chess at higher than master level,

these women would easily win against you at chess:

2597 Susan Zsuzsa Polgar

http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.ph...

2563 Alexandra Kosteniuk

http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.ph...

2498 Anna Zatonskih

http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.ph...

Chess clubs are always looking for more people to participate.

This includes that we want even more women and girls to play chess.

Of course we encourage their participation. Chess is open to everyone.

I believe that more women and girls would participate if they could see

that many other women and girls already play chess.

Some good news is that there are women Grandmasters already, and

there are already many women and girls playing chess everywhere.

Women chess players been on the cover of USCF's Monthly magazine

to recongize their achievements in chess.  We will see more.

Answer 14

Excuse me?!Women are good at chess!

Answer 15

Saying stuff like that is just ignorance, all women aren't bad at chess just as all men aren't good at it and vice versa, don't stereotype people

Answer 16

First off, this is Yahoo Answers, not Yahoo ridiculous statements.

http://www.dallaschess.com/2008natgirls/