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  • Re: now chess is 'racist' because white moves first

    From The Horny Goat@lcraver@home.ca to soc.history.medieval on Sat Jul 8 09:11:37 2023
    From Newsgroup: soc.history.medieval

    On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 10:42:52 +1000, SolomonW <SolomonW@citi.com>
    wrote:

    After an Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Sydney radio station
    posed the question if chess is racist, because its customary for the white >pieces to move first,

    https://www.jpost.com/international/top-chess-personalities-slam-abc-for-questioning-if-chess-is-racist-632604

    May as well ask if chess is racist because the corner square on the
    right is always white. Or maybe the board should be colored
    differently than all white and all black in include other colors too?
    (Which ignores the fact that while white squares are always white,
    "black" squares are inevitably some other color - I've recently seen
    brown, green pretty much any color that isn't distracting - on
    standard chess tournament equipment)
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