"Paul Rubin" wrote in message
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"David Kane" writes:
I think she said she would play "a challenger" for $2 million
dollars, at a time when there was nobody offering a prize
fund of anything close to $2 million dollars.

You should know better than to rely on Sam Sloan for this type of
info. All I can find in the pages Sloan linked was Susan basically
expressing an idealistic desire for a prize fund of that magnitude
(given that the men's WC fund was that high),

Billie Jean King remarked about something similar in Tennis - she said of
Wimbledon, eg, that the stands were just as full, and the organisers made as
much money from women as from men, and the TV stations were just as
attended - so how come barefoot and starving status?

She [laugh] also said that when she started playing there the committee
[100% men] insisted that women wear corsets.

If you go to Fide's website and look at the current picture of the
organization plus assorted national representatives for chess you will see
100% men.

Now, obviously, that has nothing to do with ... ggg

But Fide were angry with 'winning' their case, no? Which is why every other
women in the world got 50 free points - which conveniently changed the top
woman's rating, to 'legitimately' have a new top player.

Now, obviously, that ... ggg

What a farce chess management is!

Phil Innes