Daily Shaarli

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December 18, 2018

Queen of Knights and Pawns

Sports Illustrated's 1961 article on the chess player Lisa Lane.

Why is chess gender segregated? After Lisa Lane, women still face inequality

I think this article spends too much time on the structure and prize purses of top-level women's tournaments, which simply aren't the real barriers to women in chess, but it's otherwise good. I don't think I'd ever even heard of Lisa Lane before.

Dotsies

This looks like an interesting shorthand font to look at sometime.

Covariance and contravariance in subtyping - Eli Bendersky's website