Okay, I'm a geek. I confess, the first thing I thought of was "Huh. That WOULD be a staggeringly interesting study. What effect would playing against a moderately attractive and completely nude female have on a chess master's rating?"
I mean, all the criteria are measurable. The game is free of any randomness, the rating is a reliable measure of skill, so the net result of playing against attractive naked women can have a statistically measurable effect.
I'm presuming a simple relational loss. IE., -10% to rating (or whatever). In such case, I imagine the original rating (as a number) of the master matters less than...I dunno, perhaps age? ?Maybe?
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