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Man who disguised himself as a woman dominates womens chess tournament (nypost.com)
posted 3 years ago by SparkMandrill83 3 years ago by SparkMandrill83 +53 / -0
Male chess player disguises himself as woman, cheats way through championship tournament
A sneaky man’s disguise was foiled in spectacular fashion, in yet another bizarre scandal erupting from a usually sedate industry.
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– SparkMandrill83 [S] 33 points 3 years ago +33 / -0

I like how the headline straight up says he "cheated" in order to win, when all he did to cheat was be a man playing against women

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– Bottle_of_Memes 16 points 3 years ago +16 / -0

The only "wrong" thing he did was to not publicly identify as female first.

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– TyCat999999 9 points 3 years ago +9 / -0

My thoughts exactly! Weird how it’s “cheating” to be a man playing against women in a non-contact board game, but in a physical sport all you have to do is say you’re actually a chick and people will defend your right to compete!

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– when_we_win_remember 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

I thought by their own standards he won fair and square. He momentarily identified as a woman.

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– GiveThemNothing 24 points 3 years ago +24 / -0

The man’s cover was blown after he beat Uganda’s top female chess player Ampaire Shakira.

Hahaha! At this point it was obvious he had to be a man!

Self ownage jokes write themselves.

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– SoctaticMethod1 21 points 3 years ago +21 / -0

It's funny how this is another aspect that is never considered of how men and women are different as the main focus is on physical strength, endurance and durability.

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– LeinsterLad 19 points 3 years ago +19 / -0

I remember Milo spoke about IQ distribution on Sky News years ago. Essentially the bell curve which explains why there are so many male chess grandmasters but also why men fill the prisons.

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– deleted 15 points 3 years ago +15 / -0
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– lapalapa 10 points 3 years ago +10 / -0

Prison is more about disagreeableness instead of intelligence. Men are more disagreeable than women.

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– deleted 7 points 3 years ago +7 / -0
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– lapalapa 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

I believe there is a correlation between IQ and impulse control

That doesn't sound right. Impulse control is industriousness, an aspect of personality. IQ is intelligence, which isn't a personality trait. There are intelligent impulsive people and slow diligent people.

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– Sneak_King 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

As Paglia likes to say, there is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

The male IQ distribution has a larger SD, so more geniuses and more idiots compared to women. Also, the mean for men is higher than for women. Not much, but it is.

Generally speaking, men need to be inventive because they deal with the world, where one brilliant move can potentially provide for generations. Women are dealing with small children, where "creative solutions" are...undesirable and consistency is more useful.

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– deleted 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0
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– HallucinatoryBeing 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Men are exceptional; women are average.

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– Noctuner 13 points 3 years ago +13 / -0

Video games reduce the physical strength and endurance needed in exchange for higher mental aptitude like strategies, innovations, reactions / body coordinations and staying focused under heavy stress, and guess what? Men still dominate that too. There was a famous event about a women only team trying to compete in a pro-tournament in League of Legends, actually practiced seriously and had professional coaching and everything, they never won any single match but won the record for fastest loss.

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– Stumpy 9 points 3 years ago +9 / -0

Was that the team where their opponents picked supports only as a handicap and still they lost spectacularly?

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– deleted 15 points 3 years ago +15 / -0
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– raptor_jesus 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

That was Rioters vs Pros. Supports got nerfed after that.

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– Oppressinator 7 points 3 years ago +7 / -0

You know what's funny is the build up of "there's a woman's only team that was picked specifically that way and they got a lot of media hype only to set records for saddest loss" applies to a LOT of pro videogames.

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– Ahaus667 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

I mention it all the time, mostly because the “acceptable” response is it’s only because women are not pushed into chess as much…

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– SparkMandrill83 [S] 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

People in the comments are coping with Ugandan women aren't allowed to be educated or something...ignoring chess is separated by sex all over the world

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– Ahaus667 10 points 3 years ago +10 / -0

The most prominent female chess player who was allowed to compete with men got absolutely obliterated. The top female jeopardy contestant is man.

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– ParadigmShift2070 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

men are better than women at every thing except bearing children if they put their minds to it

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– LeinsterLad 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

And maybe long distance open water swimming - due to the saltwater + female fat distribution. Rogan mentioned it a while back but it's difficult to find anything definitive due to its obscurity.

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– Adamrises 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

You just need to watch a man and a woman try to park to see there are clear differences in gender mental faculties. Men have far better understanding of space and distances in both literal and abstract sense, which are fundamental to a large amount of activities. And also why women can assume 5'10 manlet is 6'2 like he said without question.

Heck that difference is still so uncontroversial (so far) its still taught in undergrad Psyche classes where I learned it.

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– Adamrises 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

I was being generous by allowing guys at 5'11 to even be considered human and not manlet.

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– daberoniandcheese 14 points 3 years ago +14 / -0

In fairness to Magnus, Niemann has been caught cheating in the past so he may be onto something. The anal aspect of it is dubious at best though.

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– BulbasaurusThe7th 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Wasn't he the one who also played much better when games were televised/ streamed?

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– AlfredicEnglishRules 6 points 3 years ago +6 / -0

Heh, he got the buzz

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– SoctaticMethod1 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

The TSA smiles as they get their latex gloves...

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– GiveThemNothing 12 points 3 years ago +12 / -0

Buh, buh Muh Queen's Gambit!

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– AbleistSL 6 points 3 years ago +6 / -0

This looks really bad in regards to how this points to women being mentally inferior to men.

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