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| Oct-17-04 | | percyblakeney: Ranked top ten among the women. Her chess idols are Karpov and Capablanca: http://wwcc2004.fide.com/main.asp?i... |
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| Aug-26-05 | | paquitodiaz: is she married?? |
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| Mar-13-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: A photo of her taken during the Women's World Chess Championships: http://www.womenchess.com/images/ga... |
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| Mar-14-06 | | BIDMONFA: Xu Yuhua
XU YUHUA
http://www.bidmonfa.com/xu_yuhua.htm
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| Mar-15-06 | | sierra: <paquitodiaz> She is married to a Go player. |
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| Mar-15-06 | | alexapple: Her husband is very famous in China. |
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| Mar-22-06 | | sierra: not very famous, but known in the Go fans. |
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| Mar-22-06 | | s4life: Go is rather popular in China |
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| Mar-23-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: She just won the first match of the FIDE women's world championship finals, while playing Black! Very impressive.
Chances are big now that she will become China's third women's world champion, after Xie Jun (1991-1996, 1999-2001) and Zhu Chen (2001-2004). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_... |
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| Mar-26-06 | | alexapple: Xu Yuhua will become a new mother in September! :) |
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| Mar-26-06 | | pengluming: From womenchess.com
What other achievements of such a level do you have?
XY: I won the World Cup in 2000 and 2002 and I am a three time Olympic Champion 2000, 2002 and 2004 as a member of our National Team. Therefore, she is the only one who won World Cup, FIDE women's world championship, and Olympic! |
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| Mar-27-06 | | myratingstinks: Can someone please explain to me why FIDE must designate a "women's" championship? I assume this question has been answered ad naseum before, so forgive me for asking it again. |
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| Mar-27-06 | | jahhaj: <myratingstinks> You are a man I take it? I think it would be the obvious reason, to encourage women to play chess by giving them a world title that they have a realistic chance of winning. |
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| Mar-28-06 | | s4life: <myratingstinks: Can someone please explain to me why FIDE must designate a "women's" championship? I assume this question has been answered ad naseum before, so forgive me for asking it again.> Why NOT ??? |
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| Mar-28-06 | | blingice: Yes, I believe I argued very fervently with <Appaz> about something like that, it's on my forum, probably third page. I donno, look around if you care. |
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| Mar-28-06 | | myratingstinks: Seems to me that gender has nothing to do with sound chess is all. So, its not so obvious to me. I was just curious. |
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Mar-28-06
 | | alexmagnus: Gender has to do with chess. Top women play about 200 pts worse than top men, average women about 150 pts worse than average men. That's a fact one can't deny. Judit Polgar is the only female player in top 300 in January list - it says everything. |
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| Mar-28-06 | | Jim Bartle: Your facts are right, Alex, but you don't demonstrate any causal relationship between being female and having a lower rating... |
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| Mar-29-06 | | claydodo: Xu Yuhua is back to Beijing today.
I saw her at the airport this morning~~~
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| Mar-29-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: <Your facts are right, Alex, but you don't demonstrate any causal relationship between being female and having a lower rating...> <Jim Bartle> Well, basically everybody already assumes that, on average, men are better at chess than women. Now it is just a matter of finding the right scientific knowledge of backing up that observation. |
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| Mar-29-06 | | Jim Bartle: "Now it is just a matter of finding the right scientific knowledge of backing up that observation." Listen, Emperor, I have a lot of respect for your opinions and knowledge--usually--but this time you're plain wrong. Science is based on observation and experimentation, then you present your findings. You don't decide what the result will be and then look for evidence to back it up. That's plain bad science. Now if you wish you could start with a hypothesis that men are naturally better at chess than women, but your research would have to be equally designed to disprove or prove the hypothesis. Now my opinion happens to be the opposite of yours. I think the reason women overall are lower-rated is due to external factors, not innate ability. But if I do a study I'd have to keep that bias out of my research, right? |
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Mar-29-06
 | | keypusher: <Science is based on observation and experimentation, then you present your findings. You don't decide what the result will be and then look for evidence to back it up. That's plain bad science.> <It is [our] theory that determines what we can observe>, said someone (Einstein? Anyone know? I am too lazy even to google.) Less abstractly, scientists don't usually hypothesize from a mass of data. Rather, they start with a hypothesis and then figure out how to test it. It's OK for the Emperor to start out believing that men are better than women at chess, as long as (if he tries to verify his belief) he is willing to seek out and fairly consider contrary evidence. |
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| Mar-29-06 | | shortsight: <alexapple: Xu Yuhua will become a new mother in September! :)> No wonder she won the Women's Chess Championships, it's 2 against 1 in all her matches(!), she outnumbered her opponents! :) |
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| Mar-29-06 | | Jim Bartle: You're right, keypusher. That's sort of what I was trying to say in my next-to-last paragraph. Still, ""Now it is just a matter of finding the right scientific knowledge of backing up that observation" doesn't sound objective. Of course it may just be a case of awkward wording. |
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| Mar-29-06 | | whatthefat: It's very awkward wording. It demonstrates a subjective belief that is unlikely to be budged by any logical arguments to the contrary. I've already given up on trying to defeat the sexists on this site with science. They tend to not understand it. |
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