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Subject: Re: Women & the CCC

Author: Vicente Fernández Herrasti

Date: 06:17:51 12/10/98

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On December 10, 1998 at 02:53:50, Georg Langrath wrote:
I think that this is a mistery that involves not only computer chess, but chess
in general.  In Psichology of the Chess Player, a very interesting book by
Reuben Fine (maybe its extreme freudianism is a little bit out of date), he
states that only 1 % of the chess players are female. Of course that the author
doesn't deal with the comp. chess issue, but some of his conclusions might be
important to start a discussion on this forum.
Vicente
>
>On December 09, 1998 at 22:44:57, Micheal Cummings wrote:
>
>>Since the time I have been a member here I cannot recall ever seeing a Female,
>>woman or Lady ever post here. Are there any female members, and if there are,
>>then were are they ?
>>
>>Or is this just a boys Club :-)
>
>Actally this subject was discussed before in CCC. Yes computerchess seems to be
>a nearly pure boy-affair. But why? I think nobody has a good answer on that
>question.
>
>Georg



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