Author: Ralph E. Carter
Date: 12:01:07 12/10/98
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On December 10, 1998 at 11:19:03, Georg Langrath wrote: >The subject why women isn´t interested in computerchess fascinate me. The >question for my wife for example, isn´t why she is not interested but why on >earth I am. > >If one woman is reading this lines it would be interesting to have a comment. In >this way we could examine if there is one woman reading this all over the world. >I am not sure. > >Georg I always preferred smart women. Some were smarter than I. Some were probably aggressive enough, but it was of a different kind. When faced with the kind of problems that occur in chess, men can experience a seizure-like gripping of the problem with their minds, as if their minds were a mechanical tool, like a vise grip. (This is what it feels like to me.) I know other men can do this, I feel it over the board. I've seen women attend to a chess problem for a minute or two. In my personal experience, I've never seen the "vise grip effect" seize a woman into total focus on a chess problem, as if her life or ego depended upon the solution. We know it can happen. But it seems more rare. Men and women are incomplete. The complete human organism is a male plus a female. The two hemispheres of the brain are complementary. Although one may be specialized for a given task, both are required for maximum performance. In the same way, for a chess player to be his best, I think he should be able to activate and utilize both the "masculine principle" and the "feminine principle". That is, both the fanatical insistence upon exact solution, plus methods like "talk around", evasion, avoidance, etc.
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