An chess commentator was sacked and accused of sexism after saying the game is 'maybe not for women.' Ilya Smirin was live on air with Fiona Steil-Antoni in the ninth round of the Women's Grand Prix in Astana, , on Tuesday when he appeared to admit to previously making the remark in private.Speaking about the competition, Mr Smirin, an Israeli grandmaster, initially mentioned the Chinese chess player Zhu Jiner, a woman grandmaster and talked about if she could be a grandmaster.
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