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Russian and Chinese chess queens battle for women’s world title – but should chess even have a male-female divide?
As Russia’s Aleksandra Goryachkina and China’s Ju Wenjun compete for the Women's World Chess Championship this week, some might question whether chess really needs a male-female divide at all. Goryachkina, 21, is the young pretender to the crown held by defending women’s world champion Ju, 28, as they battle it out over 12 games in Shanghai and Vladivostok. The prize fund is a cool €500,000 (US$556,000), with the winner taking home €300,000 of that amount.        The money on offer is still only around half of that offered at the World Chess Championship – which is open to men and women – but represents a 150-percent increase on the pr

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