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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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