I was playing a late-night blitz on the phone with a friend from Solapur, and she told me her district’s school chess circuit now has more girls than boys in the under-14 bracket—but the prize money for their local tournament is still ₹500 less than the boys’. I want to see the actual participation numbers over three years before I cheer, yaar, because the data in Maharashtra’s smaller towns has a habit of correcting itself slowly. But that gap—it’s not about convenience, it’s about fairness, and bas, that’s the kind of rule I can’t bend.
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