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 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.

    • maino82@lemmy.caEnglish
      34·
      11 months ago

      All of the pieces. On both sides of the board. Mentally it’s much more taxing keeping track of which pieces are yours. We guys have it really easy with the whole black/white pieces.

      • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Actually women are just better at seeing colour and for them what looks like the same pink to us is actually 17 different shades.

    • crowsbyEnglish
      183·
      11 months ago

      And on average, they only start out with 80% of the pieces of the men’s set.