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‘Stereotype threat’: Why women don’t make it to the top in the real world of chess – Sydney Morning Herald
In the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit a woman becomes No. 1 but in real life female players have struggled.
On the other side are those who argue the gender gap in chess is mainly due to societal and cultural pressures that put women off the game. A commonly cited example is Hungarys Judit Polgár, considered the strongest female player of all time, and the only woman ever to be ranked in the worlds top 10. Her psychologist father believed geniuses are created, not born. His three daughters, home-schooled in chess from the age of three, each achieved groundbreaking success in the game.
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