[ExI] et tu chess?

[Darin Sunley]

Or, of course, put in their own group. Whichever they want, really, but one
of those two.

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 11:55 AM Darin Sunley <dsunley at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 11:19 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> To: Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
>> Cc: efc at swisscows.email
>> Subject: Re: [ExI] et tu chess?
>>
>> What about the extremely radical suggestion to scrap gender classes in
>> chess?
>>
>> I can see the point in physical sports, but not quite in mental sports.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> spike
>>
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