The American team has finished 3rd in the last 2 tournaments.
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Kor
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I'd assume the chess thing is to level the playing field. Women's brains are generally better at multi-tasking... I'd bet they would probably take the blokes to the cleaners if the 2 players were on a level playing field from a training perspective.
I don't understand "2 players were on a level playing field from a training perspective."
Chess players can be trained, and I assume they are, regardless of sex.
I get why men and women are seperated in atheltic competitions. Men simply have a physical advantage. I don't get the segregation in mental competition.
I suppose there could be some scientific explanation on the physical characteristics of the brain that differentiate that capability. I wouldn't be surprised at all if they exist. However, that runs counter to all of the reasoning behind "equal opportunity" legislation in the US for jobs that require specific types of mental capability.
In other words.. it's either one way, or the other. Either women can perform mental tasks as well as men, or they can't, and if they can't, laws that force employers to equally consider men and women should be abolished.
It's not so much a matter of "how well" one genders brain performs over the other but more a matter of "how different". I'm not saying that either gender is inferior with regards to mental capacity; I'm simply citing why there may be cause for segregation in mental sports.
If I remember my high school biology correctly (although the studies may have changed in the past decade and a bit) there are certain area's where one gender may excel at a certain task over the other, even if they both end up at the same conclusion. I believe it was along the lines of male brains being more adept at spatial reasoning while women were more adept at multi tasking.
The equal training reference was implying that all things other things were equal where the only differing factor was the gender of the contenders.
Arguing that all things are equal physiologically between genders is a stupid argument (be it physical or mental). Men and Women are different no two ways about it. Gender equality laws are important because despite the differences at a physical level were all just people, and no one type of person should be elevated above the other just due to some hang over Patriarchal pack mentality left behind from the days when Humans communicated by grunting and beating each other with clubs was the standard methodology to settle squabbles over who gets first crack at the mammoth carcass.
So.. there's a reason for mental segregation but..
even if they both end up at the same conclusion.
If either gender ends up at the "same conclusion" then there is no reason for any segregation. After all, if men and women may reason a problem differently, but come to the "same conclusion", as in a chess move, then there's no reason for a womens category - rather just one category of competitors... which was, you know, my original argument.
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I'd assume the chess thing is to level the playing field. Women's brains are generally better at multi-tasking... I'd bet they would probably take the blokes to the cleaners if the 2 players were on a level playing field from a training perspective.
I don't understand "2 players were on a level playing field from a training perspective."
Chess players can be trained, and I assume they are, regardless of sex.
I get why men and women are seperated in atheltic competitions. Men simply have a physical advantage. I don't get the segregation in mental competition.
I suppose there could be some scientific explanation on the physical characteristics of the brain that differentiate that capability. I wouldn't be surprised at all if they exist. However, that runs counter to all of the reasoning behind "equal opportunity" legislation in the US for jobs that require specific types of mental capability.
In other words.. it's either one way, or the other. Either women can perform mental tasks as well as men, or they can't, and if they can't, laws that force employers to equally consider men and women should be abolished.
http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/nervous-system/men-women-different-brains1.htm
It's not so much a matter of "how well" one genders brain performs over the other but more a matter of "how different". I'm not saying that either gender is inferior with regards to mental capacity; I'm simply citing why there may be cause for segregation in mental sports.
If I remember my high school biology correctly (although the studies may have changed in the past decade and a bit) there are certain area's where one gender may excel at a certain task over the other, even if they both end up at the same conclusion. I believe it was along the lines of male brains being more adept at spatial reasoning while women were more adept at multi tasking.
The equal training reference was implying that all things other things were equal where the only differing factor was the gender of the contenders.
Arguing that all things are equal physiologically between genders is a stupid argument (be it physical or mental). Men and Women are different no two ways about it. Gender equality laws are important because despite the differences at a physical level were all just people, and no one type of person should be elevated above the other just due to some hang over Patriarchal pack mentality left behind from the days when Humans communicated by grunting and beating each other with clubs was the standard methodology to settle squabbles over who gets first crack at the mammoth carcass.
Holy contradiction, Batman!
So.. there's a reason for mental segregation but..
even if they both end up at the same conclusion.
If either gender ends up at the "same conclusion" then there is no reason for any segregation. After all, if men and women may reason a problem differently, but come to the "same conclusion", as in a chess move, then there's no reason for a womens category - rather just one category of competitors... which was, you know, my original argument.
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