Chess Trivia: 10 Reasons Why Indian Women in Chess is lacking big time against Men’s Squad?
Women empowerment need some serious restructuring in Sports where the popular board game, Chess is making headlines for the achievements of Indian players in Male Category.
What about Female Category, yes they are doing wonders its just consistency is lacking big time which needs big overhaul, here in this article we will reveal why Indian Women Chess is lacking big time against Men’s Squad to be shared in the below format:
- These Fancy words used by Stakeholders just to garner people’s attention doesn’t make any sense as the stark reality is pretty different on the pedestal.
- If you compare ELO rating of Chess Players over 200 Men’s have currently acquired more than 2600 ELO points however in the history of the game, only 10 female players in the history possess more than 2600 ELO Rating Points.
- You can still stay at World Number 1 ranking even if you miss few tournaments as the second best player based on ranking, is far fetched.
- India’s Female Chess Master Koneru Humpy stated while talking to TOI “If you compare dedicated practice hour as compare to Men’s team is pretty less which makes ideally more difficult to unlearn their skills and do wonders at actual event”.
- She further added “If women’s in Indian Chess receive equal opportunity like Boys and Men’s this disparity will no longer exist”.
- Looking at India’s number in Grandmaster Category over 80 people from India falls in this list you would be surprised to know only 3 female players will join this bandwagon including the likes of- D Harika , Koneru Humpy & R Vaishali..
- The other reason behind this debacle would be most countries where elder players are still playing which clearly indicates that young girls are not talking keen interest in this Popular board games.
- RB Ramesh current coach and Mentor of two chess players- Praggnanandhaa and R Vaishali stated “Women’s are more emotional than Men by Nature and this game test your emotions if you can control that you can emerge victorious in Chess board game.
- R Vaishali offered a solution to uplift, to held separate tournament like- Women’s Chess Title, Women’s Grand Master Women’s International Masters but received flak from Chess Fraternity.
- Lastly, Women’s Chess needs better branding as compare to Men’s Chess failing which they attract sponsors and fans to witness their classic encounter on the table.
