Chess will never be ruled by a queen

Recently, a 17-year-old player in Germany won the national girls’ under-18 tournament. The head of the German commission for women’s chess was less thrilled. The winner, you know, who identifies and officially categorizes as female, was born as a boy. Dominic Lawson, who writes for many major British newspapers, a strong chess player (and president of the English Chess Federation), in his words “managed to smuggle in chess as the subject” in his Sunday Times column.