What's the name of the city?

Please details. Which country and what doctorate. Lots of doctorates are useless. No surprise here.

Do you know where I can find an archive with the de.* (German) groups?

> Who would question the last confession of a dying person?

If you are doing it so would lots of other people.

You are assuming it is a problem, there is your political judgement. Why should all genders and races be represented equally in all occupations? Pertinent dictum: Strive for equality of opportunity not equality of outcomes.

> chess makes you smarter

Why do you believe that? Did you do an assessment before and after practicing chess?

Edit: I also linked to an article about studies in my other comment.

> Lifting weights, running, exercise.

Your comment needs to be upvoted.

Are there similar studies regarding chess?

I found this, it seems chess doesn't make you smarter: https://theconversation.com/does-playing-chess-make-you-smar...

Relevant quote:

"The fact that skills learned by training do not transfer across different domains seems to be a universal in human cognition. In other words, you get better, at best, at what you train in – which may just sound just like good old fashioned common sense."

Possibly softened it through steam, look for "Impossible nail through wooden block" in this thread.