It’s not a physical game, yet I have never seen any women playing against men. I remember once there was a charity game where men and women played but not official Fide tournaments.
Forgive me if they have, they r very rare at least.
Is there a proper reason ?
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Let’s say you’re in the top 10 of women in chess. You’re probably 200-400 in the world.
You can either play woman’s tournaments (woman’s Grand Swiss, woman’s world cup…) and try to qualify to become world champion. And earn a significant amount of money.
Or you can play the open section (i.e. male and female but in practice almost always male) and have almost no chance of winning.
What do you choose?
But sometimes women play in the open section. Ju Wenjun played in Tata Steel 2024. She was probably mostly invited because of her rating (a male 2549 rated would probably not have been considered unless he had some out of the ordinary trait) but in the end she didn’t perform that bad ending on 10th place (out of 14)
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