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
It wouldn't really matter, you'd just be playing a mirror image of the game. Or I guess you could call it "left-handed chess."
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