| michael adams 2005-01-18, 12:45 am |
| Nick wrote:
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> Tim Hanke wrote:
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> Thanks to Tim Hanke for the information about his chess club.
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> "It is a cross-section of society", according to Tim Hanke, but would
> about half of the players in that 'cross-section of society' be female?
> If not, then would it not be more accurate to have described it as
> 'a cross-section of *male* society'?
>
> I am *not* saying that it's the fault of Tim Hanke (or of any other
> individual male chess-player) that there are not more women in his
> (or in most) chess club. But I think that it would be better for
> chess - etc. etc. ..
How so Nicholas? - this truly is contentious. I mean the absence of
female geniuses (Germ. Greer for exam.) from the board of play, surely
subtends a disinclination by this warrior-class to engage in 'male'
deposition. Remember, the game was construed by 'spirits' to offset the
weanling blood-crave of Indian princes, who I believe were 'exclusive'..
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