https://news.yahoo.com/queen-gambit-true-story-explained-210200430.html
In a fun twist, as McClain noted, since Fischer was known to be dismissive of female chess players and once claimed they were less intelligent than men, "Making Beth recall a female Fischer may have been a sneaky, and wonderful, way to send up that assessment."
So they "owned" Bobby Fischer and his wholly accurate assessment of female chess players by grafting his skill and personality onto a fictional female chess prodigy who is more accomplished than any real female player in history? That'll show him, eh?
This is just so painfully "Netflix".
Are they saying it's based or inspired by a true story officially? Apparently it's based on the original author's upbringing and chess, but he made a fictional character to represent himself that's a female. I'm not really certain if it should be considered "based on" if the main character is different. Then again, the events are supposedly what happened, so that seems a bit confusing to me.
On a somewhat related note. If someone states that woman should be capable of competing with men in esports, point them over to the disparity in chess. The people I'm referring to aren't SJW's that are claiming sexism in the industry are keeping women out. It's just that it should be made clear that just because something doesn't resolved around physical strength or speed like a traditional sport. Doesn't just make the playing field even, not inherently at least.
IIRC you could also mention Scrabble.
Competitive Scrabble, yes that's a thing, is almost all male in the upper echelons last time I looked. Quite diverse in terms of race, but gender not so much.
Anything that requires high intelligence is going to be almost entirely male at the upper echelons because the intelligence curve for males is flatter than the one for females. It's not all benefits for men though, because while most of the geniuses are men, most of the retards at the bottom are also men; women cluster around the average.
Men are exceptional, women are average. It applies to literally every category we have, men will make up both ends of top and bottom while women are generally all vaguely close to the same.
That Y Chromosome is the much more mutatable one, because men are genetically disposable so it can risk trying new things. So all the absurd shit a human can be will always be men first, and evolution will eventually pass it on to women.
That's why you can often quite accurately assess and predict women, while men are crapshoots much of the time.
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Eh, Scrabble isn't the best example.
Helen Gipson is the top woman worldwide, peaked out at 3rd overall in the UK, and has beat Nigel Richards.
It's not like athletics where the raw potential just isn't there. With Scrabble you're just dealing with people who are several sigma off mean. The top players in the world don't change much year to year.