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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They do.
There are mixed feelings about it though.
Hou Yifan, the youngest women’s world champion, has stated that competing with top males is an opportunity.
She however resigned from a tournament claiming that matchmaking was fixed against women causing them to finish lower than they would if the matchmaking was fair against them. The way it was fixed was by putting women against other women more than they should have been, making women getting knocked out being guaranteed from those matches.
In Hou Yifan’s 10 matches, she was paired with other women 7 times despite women being less common in the tournament.
[https://www.chess.com/article/view/hou-yifan-interview-chess](https://www.chess.com/article/view/hou-yifan-interview-chess)
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/feb/03/hou-yifan-resigns-after-five-moves-gibraltar
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