The German Chess Federation has rejected any ban
meh.
if they really cared, there would not be any official 'gendered' tournaments. but there are, because they want that for some reason.
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Gendered chess tournaments make a certain amount of sense. The main issues are that women are less likely to play chess due to societal and cultural factors and without their own division would have even more societal and cultural roadblocks to joining the game. This isn't touching on how getting certain titles requires winning specific events that would prove even more difficult for those same reasons.
Basically without gendered tournaments there would be even less women in chess and it would be even more of a "boys club" than it already is.
I mean, easy fix there right? Just have a women's tournament and an everybody tournament. Women can then choose which to enter.
That's what we already do?
Oh gotcha. Sorry I'm not the most familiar with the chess world.
No because there are men only tournaments too, what the poster is saying is to remove men only and only have women or everybody we think.
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