Same way cute twinks will shoehorn anime pics in a discussion about chess, it seems.

Nothing spesh, but top 5 (in no particular order) out of those 50:

(#9, age 31)

(#2, age 33)

(#42, age 21)

(#44, age 29)

(#50, age 25)

PS: Last one is a joke.

Most are just

Dress then up a little, throw on some makeup, and you're all good to go

>exactly how you'd expect them to look

Asian

e: how the frick is she 34???

i expected much worse.

exactly how you'd expect them to

Oh at least they aren't landwahles

they all look like average dorky girls, except a little more serious.

No. 2 and 3 are kinda cute I would

I expected them to be male

Why do they all wear those thin square glasses? Doesn't look good on anyone

Chinese?

Absolutely. Take a look at Jennifer Yu. Young, female, American player. She's INCREDIBLY strong (stronger than all content creators who are not pro players, male or female) and she's virtually unknown out of actual chess viewers

https://ratings.fide.com/profile/2078341

Someone like Anna Kournikova is still good enough to make the tournaments, which is exceptional, but she's just on the lower end of it. But then, these women aren't pretending to be top echelon, as far as I can tell.

There was a decision to pretend that s*x doesn't sell any more, and it creates situations like this where it's used but it has to be portrayed as empowering.

At least Anna Kournikova was Top 10 in singles at one point, and #1 in doubles. She got way more attention than she deserved, but she did deserve some.

These losers, though? I'd be shocked if anyone in that photograph has even come close to Top 10. Heck, I'd be shocked if more than couple of them have cracked the Top 100. And I'm talking about the women's Top 100, in a game that has no reason to be segregated by s*x. Shout-out to Maia Chiburdanidze, Judit Polgár, and Hou Yifan for understanding that.

These women are chess "personalities", not chess players. Treating them as anything more would be like calling ring girls "boxers".

It's cute when foids think their achievements in random event x hold greater meaning than the deepest human instincts around which entire civilizations have been built.

Brought to you by, moid who realized being smart by itself doesn't mean all that much after all.

explain caitlin clark, then.

>moid

>it's another woman calling them out

where is the lie?

This but unironically

^^

Dramatardmoment

You wouldn't know without following chess e-celebs, but like half the women in the pic are famous for pandering to coomers (some even had profiles on sfw onlyfans clones) That's probably what the original tweet means by "chess babes"

at least they're modest enough to not show elbow

But she's mediocre for a woman

You haven't seen me clean out a Fortnite reload lobby yet don't be so hasty