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Actually the statistics of the top players in every country or globally prove me right. Everyone does that. Of the top 100 players globally only one is woman. Men are smarter than women in general, but not that smarter. You can argue all day about the opposite, or downvote all you want, statistics proves me right. Reality is not something we hope for the santa claus to give it to us. Reality is what it is.

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That's beyond the pale, you can't do this here, and I've banned the account. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26916805.

Statistics are not inherently perfect. They completely ignore things like the environment, hostility towards women in the chess world, and do so on. Correlation is not causation and all that.

The reality is that orders of magnitude more men play chess than women do. Not that men are inherently smarter. As more women play chess, we'll see a more even distribution of rankings.

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