In August 2023, the world chess federation FIDE seemed to have suddenly imposed a temporary ban on trans women’s participation in women’s tournaments. The uproar seemed overblown to me and based on careless reading of the regulation, but after a minor change in that regulation, I’m not sure what the intention was either. An attempt to sort some things out.
Tag: chess players

The Dunning-Kruger effect among chess players
The Dunning-Kruger effect is said to exist among chess players. This is however based on a single study on a small one-day open Swiss tournament. And did the authors of that study fully grasp the effect of that particular pairing system?