On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Joe Schoeman wrote:

Most women think chess is pointless, (they're probably right in the bigger
scheme), men don't think about this, we just like to play.

Still, millions of women like to play Chinese Checkers, Kalaha,
Mah-Jong, and other similar games, who - objectively - are just as
"pointless".

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Kristian Ronge
d99, Computer Science, Royal Institute of Technology
-"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for
economists." --John Kenneth Galbraith