There's so much emphasis is in the professional chess that seeing someone as a genius chess player versus what you talk about. I think the number one thing that you need as a strong chess player is the ability to concentrate and focus. If you are being asked out and hit on constantly because there is a 10 to one ratio of men to women, that of course, all of that is distracting. And then beyond that kind of structure of just the event itself, there's of course the world at large,. which generally doesn't give women gender minorities the same ability to take big, big swaths of time off to play in competitive chess events.

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