International Grandmaster Harry Golombek who is also a chess arbiter, a writer, and a long-time student of the game revealed his belief that, apart from lack of opportunity for women, there was another reason for differences between their play and that of men. There is a different quality of imagination involved. Men are more imaginative and women are better technically. Vera Menchik was a case in point. There she stands head and shoulders above the rest.
Prejudices die hard.
If Harry were correct, the playing of quality chess by a computer would be doomed to failure, whereas in fact the best chess programs are those that are technically correct and use brute force to search for options. There is no imagination involved at all. There is instead, recognition of position, an understanding of topological relationships, memory, learning of prior success and failure paths, and a mathematical weighting of the various options depending on the probable outcomes. No flashes of inspiration. Here are Spassky and Fischer plodding on for two hours in a complete dead draw.