Why all world champions are male?

All world champions are male because more men play chess.
I am willing to believe that, though it may be the other way around: more men play chess because they are better at it.

Anyway, the explanation is not root cause. No explanation has been provided why more men play chess.

Cited neurological differences in brain do not convince.
Why are all but one world champions white? (only Anand is Asian)
Why is a disproportional number of 6 world champions from Jewish descent? (Steinitz, Lasker, Botvinnik, Tal, Fischer, Kasparov)
Why is a disproportionla number of 9 world champions (Soviet-)Russian? (Alekhine, Botvinnik, Tal, Smyslov, Petrossian, Spassky, Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik)
Certainly not neurological difference.

I think it is more cultural.
The cultural values explain why so many Jews play chess well and also why some countries like Russia bring forth so many world champions. In a society where the game of chess is held in high esteem, it is more likely that champions emerge than in a society that considers the game essentially a waste of time.

There is also a biological aspect, i.e. hormonal.
In nature males tend to friendly fight to establish their rank in their group. Females engage in more social activities.
Chess is a proxy fight or proxy war.

Women do in general not like games and even less 2 person zero sum games like chess. If they like games, it is rather multiplayer non zero sum games like Catan or Monopoly.
Little girls in prime school show some interest in games like chess, but that usually fades away by the time they go to intermediary school. In the younger categories of youth players, boys and girls are roughly equal in numbers. In the higher age groups many more boys than girls remain.

There is also an economical factor. The emergence of Asian players: Viswanathan Anand, Ding Liren, Hou Yifan is recent and IMHO is linked to the economic uprising of India and China, providing for free time and money to send on the luxury of playing the chess game.

@tpr more men play chess because women have never been fostered into it omfg u need to write out 5 paragraphs to figure this out bro? I already fricken said that earlier. Do u think the soviet union tried to make female chess champions? It was never considered a female thing to do. Its that freaking simple. It was a mans game. People say that to this day. So its a cultural thing dawg.

@tpr Why is a disproportionla number of 9 world champions (Soviet-)Russian? (Alekhine, Botvinnik, Tal, Smyslov, Petrossian, Spassky, Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik)
Certainly not neurological difference.

lol bro u just mentioned like 6 jews. U obviously know nothing about chess history. Those world champions were made by the soviet chess machine. even kasporav is a jew lol. Garry Weinstein I believe was his original name.

Generally speaking, males are better at everything.

Treu.

People who have a male brain can keep more information and understand how a computer works easily..
On the other hand, someone who has a female brain connects with these informations and focusing emotional sitiuations..

So, males are more clever and patient than females to play chess..

All this beating and bleating around the bush when we all know the answer: the female brain (as has been proven) is slightly mentally retarded in comparison to the male brain. So, generally speaking (as there will always be exceptions) women will play chess better than a chimpanzee but rarely any better than a 12 year old male. I believe this is due to (without being too crude) 'phallus magnetism'. When a woman reaches sexual maturity her brain's premier intellectual preoccupation is with that which can help her into motherhood (the reason for her existence). So if we imagine a 26 year old female playing in a tournament full of males her mind will be more concerned with what is under the table on the opposite side rather than what is going on on the board. This will no doubt lead to many mistakes and blunders and is the reason why the female brain will never be inside the head of the world champion. There is an argument to be had that female circumcision at a very young age could help in this regard. But, and I think you'll all echo my sentiments here, I'd rather there never be a female world champion if it meant abusing a young child in that way. Retarded brain or not, women are still human and should be treated as such. Everyone has their place and their worth, and sure, chess is never going to be a successful place for a woman, but then again, males will never be successful at breast-feeding. Conclusion: let women do what they do best : breast-feeding the new generation and honey-beeing the library so as their male counterparts can play chess with no distractions. It may be a hard truth pill to swallow, but it is nevertheless quite true.

@So-Dog-I-Am

obvious troll is obvious...

First of all, the number of plausibly sounding explanations is infinite, although individually different due to knowledge and taste and szucheewoowoo. Is this clear period yes.

I made a short one, aiming for a certain disarming beauty, as were it a quivering lily in the flatulent breeze.

You have to be waaaaaay beyond bonkers to devote your life to board game.

Although women are on the whole quite severely screwed up in the head, they can't quite become so detached from life as to pull such an unfathomable feat off.

Or it's something to do with plate tectonics. Not sure.

The Soviet question is easy. The government wanted to promote communist superiority in any way possible, so they provided lots of training facilities and ensured that top players were VIPs.