Do blondes make good chess players? Mr A. Rider, director of the recent Hastings (Eng.) Chess Congress, says they do not. In support of his assertion, he pointed out that among the 130 players only one fair head was to be seen. "Fair-haired people," he added, "do not seem to have the powers of concentration necessary for the game. They become nervous and reckless under the strain of the competition atmosphere in which brunettes are at their ease." Mr. Rider's statement was quickly challenged. Mr. H. J. Braunholtz, keeper of ethnography at the British Museum, described the theory as "absolute nonsense."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 16
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