Women’s National Team Earn Meager 3,000 Euro for 6th Place at European Chess Finals
Team captain GM Antoaneta Stefanova led the squad to 3-1 victory over the Czech Republic in the final round.
Veteran Margarita Voiska and Adriana Nikolova earned full points, while Stefanova and Iva Videnova shared a point with their opponents. Bulgaria’s female chess team earned eleven points in the competition and finished at the sixth place. The European title went to Russia (17 points) for a third time in a row, followed by Poland and Georgia with fourteen points each.
The men’s team led by GM Veselin Topalov suffered a devastating 4-0 loss to Hungary in the last round which plunged them down to the seventh place with twelve earned points.
Source: http://paper.standartnews.com
The men got 10 times more.
It’s a very difficult question.
I (In my innocence)..always thought boys and girls should play in the same yard. But sociological realities have made it difficult for women to have the same opportunities.
I’m certainly not smart enough to solve the problem but its fairly simple to note that this is clearly unfair to women. The girls are trying just as hard as the men and should be paid accordingly as far as I’m concerned. Mysoginy is not dead I see. (Well..it is for me..but then again..when I was a kid..I thought racism was something they did in the olden times..) This world..this world..
And just another thought I had..while writing the previous post..Iinstead of having a mens Olympiad..and a Womens Olympiad..why not combine both teams and scores?
That way it would really gel em all into a cohesive unit…bet you nobody ever thought of THAT before.
I think women should recieve equal pay to men, but I don’t think chess players should be paid too much money. It’s just a game, it’s not like being a doctor, teacher or soldier etc.
There is no Men’s Olympiad. It is Open, and women do indeed take part in it, if they are among the strongest players in their country. Likewise, at the European Team event that just finished. No separate Women’s event is required. Why not abolish all women’s events? Women are equal, especially at chess (they took some time to catch up but another 10 years should see them completely equal).
Catch up? They aren’t even close. Only Judit Polgar is in the world’s top 100. The others have no chance against the top men
I think women should recieve equal pay to men, but I don’t think chess players should be paid too much money. It’s just a game, it’s not like being a doctor, teacher or soldier etc.
And how about other sports of the world. Should they pay their athletes millions? It’s just a sport? Chess players have families, pay bills and YOU still demand that they produce quality chess and NO DRAWS. What a fool you are.
“I think women should recieve equal pay to men, but I don’t think chess players should be paid too much money. It’s just a game, it’s not like being a doctor, teacher or soldier etc.”
And how about other sports of the world. Should they pay their athletes millions? It’s just a sport? Chess players have families, pay bills and YOU still demand that they produce quality chess and NO DRAWS. What a fool you are.