| > Hou, who currently outpaces the second-ranked female player by 68 points, recently left the women's chess circuit for mixed events where she can compete against men, who fill every spot in the world's top 100 rankings. I was curious if the women player's ratings were separated from the Top 100 players rankings and thought that the overall FIDE Top 100 ratings was gender differentiated. On a perusal of the FIDE rankings over the years I noticed that that is not the case. Here are the stats for this year (Feb 2017): -------------------------------------------- Top 100 Players: Rank; Name; FIDE Rating 1; Carlsen, Magnus; 2838 ... 100; Artemlev, Vladislav; 2655 101; Cordova, Emilio; 2655 Top 100 Women Players: Rank; Name; FIDE Rating 1; Hou, Yifan; 2651 Here are the stats for the earliest reported year (2000): --------------------------------------------------------- Top 100 Players: Rank; Name; FIDE Rating 1; Kasparov, Garry; 2849 ... 32; Polgar, Judith; 2656 ... 100; Fominyih, Alexander; 2594 Top 100 Women Players: Rank; Name; FIDE Rating 1; Polgar, Judith; 2656 So even though there is a separate Women Players ranking provided, the Top 100 Players is not gender differentiated. It just happens that this year, Hou, Yifan, the current top women player is ranked lower than the bottom of the Top 100 players ranking hence the top 100 payers (this year) is all men. What does that mean? Does that mean that women players do not get a chance to play among men? Are there less opportunities for mixed events? If so, yes that should definitely be changed. |