MeToo in chess: Grandmaster Susan Polgar says she’s faced sexual harassment multiple times
Just days after Grandmaster Alejandro Ramirez resigned from the Saint Louis Chess Club after eight women chess players accused the American GM of making unwanted sexual advances at them, Grandmaster Susan Polgar took to Twitter to open up about how deep-rooted and institutionalised sexual misconduct had been in the sport of chess. In a Twitter thread, she said that she had “heard countless horrific stories shared by female chess players about sexual harassment/attack/abuse” over the last 50 years, and added that she herself had been a victim of sexual harrassment multiple times.
She went on to add that she faced ‘wrath’ of powers that be for speaking out.
“No matter how often these situations were brought up, members of the brotherhood were protected… Many of us were even blamed for w...