The elite chess world has been rocked this fall by a cheating scandal involving male grandmasters. That debacle mostly drowned out a separate sexism controversy, writes former scholastic chess champion Sari Caine for NBC News THINK. Israeli grandmaster and commentator Ilya Smirin was fired for repeating the same exhausting tropes that have undermined female chess players for decades, Caine writes. Why are women, yet again, being forced to explain that they are just as capable as men when it comes to playing the game? |