Post Ax9024qLeNeSa4PL2u by 3TomatoesShort@disabled.social
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 (DIR) Post #Ax9024qLeNeSa4PL2u by 3TomatoesShort@disabled.social
       2025-08-14T00:32:45Z
       
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       Bodhana Sivanandan becomes youngest female chess player to defeat grandmasterhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-14/bodhana-sivanandan-youngest-female-to-defeat-chess-grandmaster/105650480> Shocking her family and commentators, British 10-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan beats 60-year-old grandmaster Peter Wells in the last round of the 2025 British Chess Championships.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ax902ANr3EQNlR7fSy by 3TomatoesShort@disabled.social
       2025-08-14T00:34:21Z
       
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       "Sivanandan has now been given the woman international master rank, which is the sits as the second-highest rank given to women exclusively and is just behind woman grandmaster."Why does chess need gendered titles though?? 🤨
       
 (DIR) Post #Ax90Su1rxtzcrNaWO0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-08-14T00:54:18Z
       
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       @3TomatoesShort I think the best way to determine if such titles are helpful is to do regular surveys of women who play chess, and not just top players but all participants. If most of the women think it's not important it could be dropped, but sometimes you need to make space for growth when you have something as lopsided as chess. In 1996 I was told flat-out that my school team didn't take girls. I would have joined a women's team if there were one.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ax917IaW4jXYbx3Y24 by 3TomatoesShort@disabled.social
       2025-08-14T01:01:34Z
       
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       @futurebirdOh for sure, I absolutely see the need for incentives to bring girls in. I just don't personally see how gendered titles function within that need, but absolutely happy to be corrected by women and girls in the chess world, it's not a world I'm familiar with.