Mike Buchanan [J4MB]: Anyone who doubts the existence of gender-typical brains should read We Are Our Brains by
an eminent Dutch neuroscientist with an unfortunate name, Dick Swaab.
In the book he explains that as a result of scanning, there are now
known to be many hundreds of differences between gender-typical
male-pattern brains and female-pattern brains.
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Susie Nordqvist: He's been called a "sexist buffoon" and "ignorant" by those in the chess community.
Today English grandmaster Nigel Short took on 20
women in Auckland's Aotea Square, for the New Zealand Chess
Championships to test his theory that men are hardwired to be better at
chess than women.
Among his opponents was former Bachelor contestant Natasha Fairley.
"I'm more in my element here than in a house with 20
girls," she says. "Competing against people who eat healthily and
exercised was not my cup of tea."
Unlike her time on The Bachelor, today Fairley was the winner – the last of the women left standing after two and a half hours of play.
But she couldn't go on to prove Short wrong.
"I didn't make any mistakes, he just slowly outplayed me and that's the way to die," she says.
Mr Short says he had some "tough fights" today.
He
may have infuriated women all over the world, but he reckons he's done
some good. Mr Short says he was out to raise the profile of the game and
he's done just that.
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