As anyone who has ever played the game knows, chess pieces are deceptively ________.

Enormous
hand strength and lung capacity are required to move even a tiny pawn across a board. Shifting a rook or
a queen? That can exhaust a delicate lady’s fingers for weeks _______ end. And don’t get me started on
the spatial intelligence and mental acuity ________ for chess. Even thinking about the game makes my
poor little woman brain hurt.

Obviously, this is all nonsense. And yet men have long been keen to push the idea that they’re somehow
innately ________ at chess than women. “[Women] are terrible chess _______,” Bobby Fischer
proclaimed in 1963. “I guess they’re just not so smart … I don’t think they should mess into intellectual
affairs, they should keep strictly to the home.”

Source:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/19/trans-women-chess-ban-sports-
week-in-patriarchy

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