On 07 Oct 2003 15:13:44 GMT, (Franky1998) wrote, in
part:

I hope that the women reading this can be objective in responding to my
question, and don't think that I am a male chauvinist or something similar. To
the opposite I am upset with that fact, so I am doing a researc on this.

It is believed that there is a difference in the brains of men and
women, so that while pictures and diagrams make it easier for boys to
learn math, girls follow the verbal explanations better. Since chess
is a game of spatial relationships, that would give men some
advantage.

Also, men often have more spare time to spend on hobbies, from model
railroading on up. They have more economic power, and women get stuck
with housework and child care.

Of course, some women have done well at chess, indicating social
barriers are a more important factor.

Also, not to be forgotten is that men need to be good at something -
whether it is their grades, their car, getting high scores at video
games, doing well on the football field, making music with their own
rock band - to impress girls. Girls impress boys by looking pretty. So
men will be driven to all sorts of competitive activities, which women
may well tend to see as silly.

There are so many factors that to isolate them, and determine their
relative weight, would be an impossible task.

John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html