/lit/ - Literature

>>12467349
actually it's the perfect example you nigger. a male is way more likely to pick up chess because he likes it. he might like it because he sees an intrinsic value in chess. he doesn't care if everyone in the world plays chess or only a handful do. He will do it in the most dumb way possible, for his own love of what goes on in the game. There is the obvious downside to this: you will get tons of males investing time into shit like getting 200mil exp in runescape

a woman on the other hand NEEDS there to be some vast cultural background where chess is played everywhere, where people openly talk about chess and where tons of other women also play chess. In other words, she waits until it's "safe" to play chess before playing it. That's why it's always women shilling about 'muh' barriers to entry, muh cultural influence and so on.

The best female chess players were raised by two parents who performed an experiment by homeschooling children and forcing them to play chess from the onset. To these women, chess is literally an intractable part of social existence.

daily fucking reminder that Bobby Fischer and his sister bought a chess set of their own accord, she lost interest where he went on to become a legend