Do you consider Chess to be more of a man's game or a woman's game?

[Anonymous]

Chess is a man's game!

Chess is a woman's game!

[Shiprex]

It's a game of winner and loser on the whole which tends to be less suited to how women relate to others. Conflict isn't their choice if alternative interactions are sought. SURE women CAN compete but just look at the uptake of sport as an adult hobby between men and women.

[Shiprex]

TY for the SO

[MrChinaski]

Judit Podgar became a grandmaster at 15 and peaked at like number 5 in the world. Garry Kasparov cheated against her (touch-move rule). Yes, chess is a game for both men and women.

[MrChinaski]

*Polgar

[MrChinaski]

She still has gainful employment commentating chess, and she is very good at it.

[Anonymous]

Only a man could play something so tediously dull as chess.

[EmmaMary]

I think this still falls in favour of being a man's game.

[EmmaMary]

Thank you for the MHO.

[strateguy632]

Adult women rarely "play games on boards" including chess, but men commonly did until video games. So 1st.

[Anonymous]

FIDE lists 1643 male chess Grandmasters. While only 37 female Grandmasters.

Draw your own conclusions from this.

[slatyb]

No, I don't.

[In_Trance]

neither