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Chess "is diverse and inclusive," the German Chess Federation said in rejecting calls for a ban on trans competitors.

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[–] AlataOrange@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Oh gotcha. Sorry I'm not the most familiar with the chess world.

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No because there are men only tournaments too, what the poster is saying is to remove men only and only have women or everybody we think.

[–] AlataOrange@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What chess tournament is men's only, I haven't heard of a single one?

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago

Okay, seems you were correct. Thanks for the correction, genuinely!

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Maybe not officially, we aren't sure (we will look this up). But there are some men who refuse to play with women.

[–] AlataOrange@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you are paired against an opponent and choose not to play against them then you get an uncontested match loss and will tank your ELO pretty quickly. This is also anecdotal but I've never met a player who would refuse an opponent of roughly equal ELO

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Awesome, thanks for the correction!

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That specific scenario wouldn't make the tournament a "men's only" tournament, it'd just mean that a bunch of sensitive weirdos are throwing a strop because a woman is in the vicinity lol

That's so mad though, are there really men who refuse to play chess with women???

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Hmm, we could have sworn we saw something a while ago but we aren't finding anything now. Oh well shrugs.