Chess Grandmaster
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It isn't even an insult. Woman Grandmaster is a distinct rank made up because chess is sexist or some similar bullshit. It is equivalent to the sexless Master. So the kid is rightly pointing out that she isn't a Grandmaster, shes a lower rank that only women can have which has a similar name.
That's the part many aren't getting. He wasn't being misogynistic or insulting at all but he was being technically correct, something tons of boys his age with a brain often do.
Boys can be surprisingly honest when they don't have mentally-retarding hormones in their system.
Or when they just don't realize yet that they can be severely punished for speaking their mind.
Like... under-12 chessmaster.
EDIT: I think that kid is a "bona-fied" 2300 master, eh? Not in a special category.
Having separate categories for girls is good though. Women's hockey & all that. If they're THAT good they can play the men if they want, there's no "Men's Category" it's open to all.