Here are some of the up and coming young female talents in the U.S. today. A number of them are on the top boards in their sections this weekend at the National K-12 Championships in Houston, Texas.
I will do everything I can to help these young ladies and many more young talented female players in the U.S. stay and grow in chess. This is one of the missions of the Susan Polgar Foundation and SPICE. With the support of Texas Tech, many more opportunities will now be available for these youngsters.
The future of women’s chess in America looks quite bright!
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Susan Polgar
December 9, 2007
Chess Research, General News, SPICE / Webster, Susan's Personal Blog, Women's Chess
15 Comments
Question: are the majority of US young female talents of Asian descent or is it just a coincidence that all 7 in the collage are?
Congratulations Susan and Paul. You’ve done more for US chess in the past 6-7 years than your detractors can ever dream of. Keep up the good fights and go Tech!
Don’t let them get you down. We’re behind you all the way.
I have always wondered:
why to separate males from females
in chess competitions?
It’s not a weight lifting!
You don’t say anything about how the Susan Polgar Foundation is helping young chess players, regardless of the involvement of TTU.
I would certainly like to know more about this.
One way to see it: the foundation helps by giving out more chances to compete. Furthermore, it also gives out prizes in the form of scholarship which can be seen as peace in mind. I believe that the foundation also does some open training and other things that helps.
‘Colleges are looking for “leadership,”
What a boring post. Why choose psychopath Bobby Fish as an example why not choose LEADER Susan Polgar?
“Chess may even hurt on a college application.”
Hahahahahahaha.
@half sigma, why assume that these young girls are the children of recent immigrants? And then you say that people who have been living here longer know better. East Asians have started immigrated to the US over 200 years ago. You’re assumptions are ugly and close minded.
half sigma:
true- true unrelated.
while it may be true – your claim that 80% of Asians 21 and younger were not born in the U.S. (and I will assume that you are not misinterpreting the IPUMS extract),
and it may be true that most of the young female talents are Asian (and again I will assume that your general hypothesis is true),
you provide no evidence that these young female talents are immigrants. Could they all be second, third, or twelfth generation Asian Americans? Could they all be recent immigrants? There is no data presented that tells you from which demographic these chess talents arise.
your assumptions may be innocent enough, but your choice of words later in your post do not help your objectivity.
why do you assume that these parents are ‘naive’?
do you know better? are you one of them or maybe you’ve conducted an extensive survey.
why do you assume that those who live here longer know ‘better’
by what yardstick do you feel they do in fact know ‘better’
if you have an objective, unbiased argument to make – please do so – do not color it with subtext that is sure to obscure whatever point it was that you were trying to make. I am assuming you are not racist, and your comments are just short-sighted.
I commend Susan on opening a blog to anonymous bloggers without censorship (except in extreme cases I assume), and I hope that posters would show some thought before posting statements such as yours, half-sigma – which are couched in innuendo –
I still think that the question is legitimate – are most US young female talents of Asian descent? What happens to these young talents as they grow older? why do we not see as many Asian female grandmasters, or maybe this is the wave of the future?
I honestly don’t know, but those who have been around longer and gained wider experience might shed some light in this area – and if there are obstacles to such young female talent rising to the top in later life – perhaps, that is one of the things that SPICE will identify and engender research into this area – (I am not speaking for the goals of SPICE, but I think that this unique institution that Susan and Paul have started seems like the equivalent of a National Cancer Institute – a multidisciplinary, focused approach to address a singular purpose- except in this case it is excellence in Chess)
(wow – my first blog here – I hope I didn’t overdo it – I’m still on adrenaline overload from the last day of Nationals here in Houston and the kids are finally asleep!)
aargh, my first blog and I blew it – sorry everyone:
I meant ’21 and older’ as stated in half sigmas’ original post (not 21 and younger) –
OK , here it is again without the typos for the sake of clarity:
half sigma:
true- true unrelated.
while it may be true – your claim that 80% of Asians 21 and older were not born in the U.S. (and I will assume that you are not misinterpreting the IPUMS extract),
and it may be true that most of the young female talents are Asian (and again I will assume that your general hypothesis is true),
you provide no evidence that these young female talents are children of recent immigrants. Could they all be second, third, or twelfth generation Asian Americans? Could they all be children of recent immigrants? There is no data presented that tells you from which demographic these chess talents arise.
your assumptions may be innocent enough, but your choice of words later in your post do not help your objectivity.
why do you assume that their parents are ‘naive’?
do you know better? are you one of them or maybe you’ve conducted an extensive survey.
why do you assume that those who live here longer know ‘better’
by what yardstick do you feel they do in fact know ‘better’
if you have an objective, unbiased argument to make – please do so – do not color it with subtext that is sure to obscure whatever point it was that you were trying to make. I am assuming you are not racist, and your comments are just short-sighted.
I commend Susan on opening a blog to anonymous bloggers without censorship (except in extreme cases I assume), and I hope that posters would show some thought before posting statements such as yours, half-sigma – which are couched in innuendo –
I still think that the question is legitimate – are most US young female talents of Asian descent? What happens to these young talents as they grow older? why do we not see as many Asian female grandmasters, or maybe this is the wave of the future?
I honestly don’t know, but those who have been around longer and gained wider experience might shed some light in this area – and if there are obstacles to such young female talent rising to the top in later life – perhaps, that is one of the things that SPICE will identify and engender research into this area – (I am not speaking for the goals of SPICE, but I think that this unique institution that Susan and Paul have started seems like the equivalent of a National Cancer Institute – a multidisciplinary, focused approach to address a singular purpose- except in this case it is excellence in Chess)
(wow – my first blog here – I hope I didn’t overdo it – I’m still on adrenaline overload from the last day of Nationals here in Houston and the kids are finally asleep!)
@shift3: i’m the anonymous that post the question. thank you for trying to answer my question. i just find it rather interesting that in a country as diverse as the US the ones captured in the collage are all of the same descent.
i think as you, as you’re logged in, can delete your comment.
why are all the female players asian. arnt there any black, latin, or american indian female players. i think i know the reason. asians come from family’s that have money. black,latin and american indians live in ghetto’s wheres there no chess. everyones just figuring out if there going to be able to eat. they have more important things to think about.
wolverine:
“i think i know the reason. asians come from family’s that have money. black,latin and american indians live in ghetto’s wheres there no chess. everyones just figuring out if there going to be able to eat. they have more important things to think about.”
um, i don’t know where you’re from or what sort of financial investment it takes to play chess there, but over here in NYC chess is virtually free – you can play at parks, or you could pick up a used board for around $1. or if you were really cheap (or poor), you could just steal a board from you’re school. whatever is holding blacks and ‘american indians’ back from chess – if anything – is not lack of funds to buy a board.
Nice to see photos of my new friends Ellen, Evan and Sarah on the this blog. Good luck girls!
To Pa…I guess you are very lucky in NYC as here in TX, to get a child onto a team, one needs to spend mucho bucks. It costs 25-30$ an hour lesson and all the coaches think that all the parents are sitting on a money vault that they can keep shelling out money for the lessons! NYC is lucky to have chess in the school curriculam!