Échecs et société

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Analyses on chess in education, media, technology and collective life.

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Chess and Women: Why So Few, and Is That Changing?

40 women among 1,700 Grandmasters. The gap isn't biological: it's mathematical, historical and psychological. What the data really says, and why the 'female brain' argument doesn't hold.

3 avril 2026 Lire

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Société 22 min

Chess and Addiction: When the Game Becomes a Drug

It's 3am. You promised yourself it was the last game, but you're launching another one. Can you really be addicted to chess? A breakdown of a silent addiction.

3 avril 2026 Lire

Société 22 min

Chess and Autism: Why the Chessboard Becomes a Refuge

For a brain that struggles with social ambiguity, the chessboard is one of the few spaces where rules truly hold. What research actually says about autism and chess, without romanticism or oversimplification.

2 avril 2026 Lire