The Queen's Gambit

The Queen's Gambit

Outside the tournament, they wore sandwich boards that read, “One Man Is Worth Ten Women?” and “What Good Is A King Without A Queen?”, and came up with a song: I’m gonna lay down my queen and pawn / Until the queen that fights gets paid like kings and knights / ‘Cause queens got appetites. A man burned his U.S. Chess Federation membership card in protest on the sidewalk.

Originally shared by Ray Radlein

More than 50 years ago, Lisa Lane became the first chess player ever featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated (Bobby Fischer was the second and last). Not long thereafter, she vanished from public life.
https://www.si.com/more-sports/2018/12/17/lisa-lane-hou-yifan-womens-chess-gender-inequality-world-championships

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