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What chess tournament is men's only, I haven't heard of a single one?
Okay, seems you were correct. Thanks for the correction, genuinely!
Maybe not officially, we aren't sure (we will look this up). But there are some men who refuse to play with women.
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
Awesome, thanks for the correction!
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???
Hmm, we could have sworn we saw something a while ago but we aren't finding anything now. Oh well shrugs.