Black on the "Right"
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As Howard Staunton observed, "In the earlier ages of chess, the board was simply divided into sixty-four squares, without any difference of colour".[1] The checkering of the squares was a European innovation, introduced in the thirteenth century.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_and_Black_in_chess