Tania Sachdev asked people to play with POWERLESS QUEEN, to show the importance of empowering women

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It’s a well-known fact in Chess game The Queen is the powerful pieces on the board. But if you compare this with the reality of women these days living, you can’t see the same power that a queen hold in the game.

Tania Sachdev who is India’s No. 2 woman chess Grandmaster, is asking this hard-hitting question about women empowerment in a campaign called PowerlessQueen.

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This is conceptualized by WATConsult for Nanhi Kali, an NGO for girl child education, PowerlessQueen campaign challenges people to play chess with a stable queen.

An online game on Powerless Queen.com, in which the first player will have the Powerless queen and other will have the Queen with all her powers. The aim of this game is to make people realize if you don’t empower women, the growth is not possible in any way.

Issues like lack of education, healthcare, malnourishment, domestic violence and many more among women, are the focus of the game and to uplift the Queen in their lives.

Anna Rudolf, the Hungarian chess player who holds the FIDE (The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation) titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster, was immensely touched by the unique concept of the campaign.

She also recorded a video of herself playing chess with a powerless Queen which she lost, naturally, making a valid point that you can’t win a match when your Queen, or the woman/women in your life, has/have no power.

Make your Queen powerful unless eventually, you will lose the game of your life.

Published by Soniya Kaur on 02 Apr 2018