
265 - Chess Queens - Jennifer Shahade (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
The Great Man Theory and the Future of Chess
The great man theory is still seeping into other domains where the idea of having access and privilege to play in a world and get obsessed with something is like off the table. You can see it in the way in what people do, like the types of games that they're interested in. So yeah, people might not say that like women are bad at chess anymore. But will they include women's games in the lessons that they give? Will they study women's games? Do they care about what women think?
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