Males versus females in chess

[rpm]

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5567

Normally knowing your enemy is an advantage. Not so in chess games between the sexes. In a study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology Dr Anne Maass (et al.) pitted male and female players against each other via the Internet. Women showed a 50% performance decline when they were aware that they were playing a male opponent.

 

[ponder]

Women showed a 50% performance decline when they were aware that they were playing a male opponent.

It's the old submissive thingy

 

[killadoob]

Well chess is about brain power not physical power so if women do not do as well it is all their mind