<div dir="ltr">It's an interesting question of objective scientific fact whether the distribution of chess ELO scores of trans-women looks more like the distribution of the chess ELO scores of cis-men or cis-women. The International Chess Federation might reasonably be expected to be the best source of real world data on this question.<div><br></div><div>I would think the consistent heuristic would be that, in just about any competitive environment, trans-women should be grouped with the cis-group whom their score distribution most resembles. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 11:19 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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Subject: Re: [ExI] et tu chess?<br>
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What about the extremely radical suggestion to scrap gender classes in chess?<br>
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I can see the point in physical sports, but not quite in mental sports.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Daniel<br>
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Daniel, you wouldn't say that if you go into Google, enter top women chess players, set to images. Oh they are stunning beauties, about 3/4 of them. If they are mixed with the men, we fellers couldn't concentrate against such scenery. Unfair advantage for the ladies I say.<br>
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spike<br>
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