Sadly I was too busy Thursday to catch up on #candidates and do predictions. Given how badly I was doing probably no big. I did watch some of the open games. Vidit and Fabi premoved a dozen turns and then traded everything. How have these two only played each other OTB ~3 times? #FIDE#chess 🤨
An exciting day of pairings today! Who do you think will win? Watch with us, in just under 20 minutes from now with special birthday stream commentary from IM Irene Sukandar, and GM Matthew Sadler! https://www.twitch.tv/lichessdotorg#FIDE Candidates #Chess
Round 1 of the FIDE Chess Candidates for both the Open section (Men) and Women start today in Toronto. The winners in both will play the reigning World Chess Champion in each category. Ding Liren and Ju Wenjun respectively. Tournament ends on 23rd April.
Just saw few people defending the decision by International Chess Federation (#FIDE) to ban #trans women from participating in Women's #chess. I honestly don't have any idea about why they made the decision, but how can anyone defend it?
We hope that #FIDE will reconsider their new rules about transgender players, which in our view seem discriminatory and potentially harmful. Several national #chess federations have publicly expressed similar concerns. We urge FIDE to review the situation, consult with players who would be affected by the rules, and work towards a more inclusive solution.
@Emily I'm pretty shure they also talked to some lawyers and found out that complying with such #discrimimation as pushed forward by #Russia|n-led #FIDE would literally be a #felony in #Germany and other juristictions.
I really hope @antidiskriminierung will literally go after [not just sports] associations that do #transmisogyny or general not just anti-[#trans] discrimination!
top global chess official (Dana Reizniece-Ozola, FIDE) called for more research into whether factors such as hormone levels & physical endurance impact players' abilities at male-dominated game
So apparently #FIDE as provided a reason for why trans women are banned from playing in womens tournaments, citing factors such as "physical endurance"...
You literally sit on a chair for some hours while moving a light wooden piece every minute or so. I- What?
Imagine sitting down to play #Chess and you don't have a 2 year report on your opponent's genetalia. What if I go to mate a woman but then she jumps up, whips out a giant cock and says "Not so fast buster, it is I who will mate you!" and now according to the rules of the game I have to bottom for her. I didn't sign up for that. Like, do I still call her afterwards or do I wait for her to call me? Is it all texts these days? I just wanted to play a boardgame and now I'm all stressed out.
It's a common misunderstanding that because there's womens only chess, there has to be mens only chess (one that I'm seeing a lot on fedi from non-chess players right now). There's no rule that states this. It's just that it's such a mens dominated sport that it often looks like it on the highest level.
The world's top #chess federation has ruled that #transgender#women cannot compete in its official events for females until an assessment of #gender change is made by its officials.
The decision by #Switzerland-based federation #FIDE, which was published on Monday, has drawn criticism from advocacy groups and supporters of #TransgenderRights.
The #FIDE ban on #trans women in women's #chess tournaments gets worse the more you read it. Not only are trans women banned from the women's game, but they've also told trans men that any titles won in the women's game from pre-transition will be rescinded, unless they detransition. They can't pretend it's about protecting the integrity of the game or whatever nonsense, when the only internally consistent thing about the ruling is that it's anti-trans in every way, and is deliberately cruel
The policy of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) strikes me as triply offensive: (a) transphobic, (b) sexist to female chess players, and (c) simply an insult to everybody's intelligence.