Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!gateway From: ghenrick%unix2.tcd.ie@EVANS.UCAR.EDU Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Chess (Was: Sexism) Message-ID: Date: 4 Apr 91 20:24:45 GMT References: <560@clbull.cl.bull.fr> <1991Mar16.023153.20594@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Mar29.020740.2687@world.std.com> <1991Apr1.030506.16835@athena.mit.edu> Organization: Trinity College, Dublin Lines: 35 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: zola.ics.uci.edu In <1991Apr1.030506.16835@athena.mit.edu> sethg@athena.mit.EDU ("Seth A. Gordon") writes: >A friend of mine, who is a fairly good chess player, says that in >order to play chess at the international-master level, you need to be >aggressive; you have to treat the other player as an enemy to be >demolished, not just someone you're playing a game with. He has made >a conscious choice to be a nice guy instead of a master chess player. >If he's right about chess and attitude, then when boys are socialized So lets get more girls playing chess.Big deal. >to be more aggressive than girls, it helps male chess players win more >games than female players. Teach girls to plan,think and go for what they want and to get it. Apathy sucks! >Furthermore, if chess-playing ability is distributed in a normal curve >(or something similar), a small difference in the ability of average >players implies a massive difference in the ability of >grandmaster-level players. But what are the variables to be taken into account when deciding how to produce such a graph. Does IQ come into it? Does how social(friendly etc) a player is come into it? Does age come into it? In what proportions? You generalise too much(So do I, but what the heck.). >-- -- The Lord said unto Gavin. "Many Talents have you not, So make the most of those I gave you."