article_snippet.sent: The Queen is the most powerful piece in chess.
article_snippet.sent: But one of the UK’s most well-known grandmasters has angered women by saying women aren’t smart enough to play the game.
article_snippet.sent: Nigel Short, 49, said women were not suited to playing chess because it required logical thinking.
article_snippet.sent: The chess commentator and writer said women should accept women were ‘hard-wired very differently’ and weren’t as adept at playing chess as men.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Short, who was the first English player to play a World Chess Championship match, made the comments when explaining why there were so few women in competitive chess.
article_snippet.sent: Nigel Short has controversially claimed women were not suited to playing chess because it required logical thinking .
article_snippet.sent: he told New in Chess magazine:
article_snippet.sent: It would be wonderful to see more girls playing chess, and at a higher level, but rather than fretting about inequality, perhaps we should just gracefully accept it as a fact.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Women, by Women nature, are not exceptional chess players: Women are not great fighters.
article_snippet.sent: Female chess players reacted angrily to Mr Short’s statements last night.
article_snippet.sent: Amanda Ross, the leader of the Casual Chess club in London, told The Daily Telegraph
article_snippet.sent: At least this resolves the age-old debate as to whether there’s a direct link between chess-playing ability and intelligence.
highlights_snippet.sent: ‘hard-wired very differently’
  Made comments when explaining why there were so few women in chess .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Female chess players reacted angrily to Mr Short’s statements last night .