Few female chess players

Recent New York Times article about female chess players is fascinating.

According to the story, there was recently a chess tournament in the Czech Republic that pitted women (dubbed "Snowdrops") against older male chess players. In the end, "The women edged the men by the narrowest of margins: 16.5 to 15.5, with each win counting as a point and each draw as a half point."  

Full story at http://gambit.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/snowdrops-women-beat-old-hand...