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Trans teen’s chess win in Germany prompts backlash
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No because there are men only tournaments too, what the poster is saying is to remove men only and only have women or everybody we think.
What chess tournament is men's only, I haven't heard of a single one?
Maybe not officially, we aren't sure (we will look this up). But there are some men who refuse to play with women.
If you are paired against an opponent and choose not to play against them then you get an uncontested match loss and will tank your ELO pretty quickly. This is also anecdotal but I've never met a player who would refuse an opponent of roughly equal ELO
Awesome, thanks for the correction!