(Sorry, I accidently deleted part 1)
At my chessclub I'm the only woman.
No problem, everybody behave as knights to me. After the games we drink a beer or four and play blitz, and conversations are all about how refined we beated our opponent. Fun.
When we play with other clubs we have sometimes to go to villages where they live with medieval standards.
Mother stays home knitting and father has his weekly chess evening amongst other man.
when they see me, they first think that I am with somebody as a fan.
But when they discover I come to play too, they are shocked. They are really shocked when they get an agressive King's Gambit against a nice friendly looking lady. ( I'm a very agressive player, my club friends told me)
In the university towns there are more women who play serious chess. I'm not shure but I think it's about 10 %.
I wonder how the situation is in other countries.
At the youth departement of our club both sexes are equally represented, so what happens with all those girls when they get older?
About my games: Allmost all my games I've won took no more than 27 moves.
For me is a draw not an option, except against a much stronger player.
In games where we opposite castled I take often great risks when we both start a storm attack with our pawns. I discovered that if I take more risk my opponent switches to defence instead of attacking. One time my king was only defended by one pawn while all the other pieces where gathered around the king's fort of my opponent. This guy's rating was 200 above mine.
The problem with my style of playing chess is that I don't know much of endgames, I don't have enough experience from real games, the check-mate is in the middlegame.
And against other agressive players I found out that my tactic skills are not sufficient yet.
Yet...
Watch me, guys , untill I finish my exercises.
Princess Errant is on her way!
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7 comments:
Good post! I have a theory on women chess players. I hope I'm not out of line.
Possibly due to societal pressures of going from a girl to a lady a lot of women decide to drop out of chess at some point in their development. Whether it's the male ego or parental pressures I can't say but I've seen very smart girls give up their academic or competitive endeavors to pursue a more domestic role. What do you think?
I for one love women who challenge my intellect. I can't stand docile and cutsie. My ex is a doctor who wouldn't argue with me and if things got argumentative she would just walk out of the house. That relationship only lasted a year.
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Margriet,
Would you be interested in joining our team on FICS for the next Team 45 45 tournament?
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Hi Pawn, thank you for your invitation. I'm not a member at FICS. And for this time I don't play quick games.
When I play too much blitz I cannot play long games anymore because the habit of moving too fast.
I first want to improve my chess.
Margriet, Team 45 45 is not blitz. The games are played g/45 + 45, or, in other words, game in 45 minutes with 45 second increment.
Thanks CD. Yes Margriet, I never play blitz games. Never have and I don't know when I'll ever get around to it.
I usually limit myself to one game on FICS a day because it takes me anywhere between half an hour and one hour to complete one game.
For Team 45 45, with those time controls games can take up to 3 hours so they are usually scheduled over the weekends. There can be up to 6 players on a team but only 4 will play 1 game each week until the team is eliminated or the tournament is over.
If you are trying to play slow games you won't find a better place to do it! I too am very serious about my development.
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sorry, I have to much to do. maybe in the summermonths.
It's interesting to note that a lot of young girls in India are taking to Chess and participating in tournaments. Hope the trend continues.
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