What chess taught me about the differences between men and women
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What chess taught me about the differences between men and women
Might it be that the kinds of knowledge we most need today are the kinds of knowledge that arise from women getting together in person, away from the male gaze?
Jonathan Rowson • Witch Envy
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One example: the number of women who cook vastly outnumbers the number of men who cook. And yet only 10% of Michelin-starred chefs are female. I believe this is because, as Jenny Offill put it, women rarely become art monsters. From Dept. of Speculation: “My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almos
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This last point struck a chord with me. When playing a game of chess there was usually multiple moves that I could make and I would determine and adjust my strategy from this. A mistake by the opponent could allow me to switch from a defensive to an attacking play or to consolidate control over part of the board. I would determine one course of act... See more
Simon Wardley • Highlights From medium.com
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What’s more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculation, creativity, and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist, and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you’ll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.
Garry Kasparov • How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom
Having spent a lifetime analyzing the game of chess and comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I’ve often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis, the ability to combine creativity and calculation, art and science, into a whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts. Chess is a un
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The male mind appears to be innately tribal—that is, structured in advance of experience so that boys and men enjoy doing the sorts of things that lead to group cohesion and success in conflicts between groups (including warfare).20 The virtue of loyalty matters a great deal to both sexes, though the objects of loyalty tend to be teams and coalitio
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
It was through understanding the landscape, the rules of the game and context specific play that I had started to master chess. But this was not what I was doing in business. I had no way to visualise the environment, no means to determine why here over there and no obvious mechanism of learning from one game to another. I’ve added these two types ... See more
Simon Wardley • Highlights From medium.com
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Gender is divided between men and women (and some cultures recognise other categories). So-called ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ qualities are inter-subjective and undergo constant changes.