Black pieces in chess have nothing to do with racism. Stop the nonsense
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White doesn’t move first. A person playing with white pieces makes the first move. The person may be of any color.
Jul 14, 2019
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#42
This whole world needs to get a grip stop all the stupidity & nonsense. In other words grow the xxxx up
Thank goodness someone finally sees it's not racism. It isn't racist.
Actually, white going first was a relatively recent development in the history of chess. Up until the mid 1800s players would choose an color and then randomly decide which would go first. Openings had to be memorized both as we would know them as a mirror image. So a sicillian would start 1. - e5 2. c4 ... Furthermore, even Magnus, had you bothered to read his statement, said that it wasn't commentary on the game itself but a symbolic gesture to raise awareness and to make us question our basest assumptions (see: the people that quite wrongly assumed that one color of pieces always went first rather than choosing at random). For a few days, we got to see things the way the chess players of yore saw them half of the time and were given a chance to bring the terrible injustices that racial prejudice produced when combined with power. And that many of us even have wrongful assumptions that we don't even know about and yet act on every day!
Jul 14, 2019
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#45
"Both sides in chess are equal"
Why does stockfish say white is +0.16 in the beginning?
LeopoldLodur wrote:
How does swiching colours remove racism?
If white moving first is racism, then black moving first is also racism.
What is to be done?
Have all pieces be white/black/non-racist colour and have a symbol for each side?
Now that just sounds plain stupid to me.
Keep all pieces gray, and require both players to remember which pieces are whose...everything is "racist" today, and that is why the world is falling apart, because this bs is all people care about!
ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
Because Stockfish is racist!
I know, how dare we assign a negative value to black being ahead!
Actually, chess is racist against white, because black gets to start on the TOP of the board (ranks 7-8) while white starts in the basement...come on!
Really???You are giving way too much power to a color.
m_connors wrote:
I used to have a chess set with Red and Blue pieces . . .
But if it was red and green, then that would be racist, since they are complementary colors.
kathleencleans wrote:
Really???You are giving way too much power to a color.
Oh please, the entire forum background is white.
EndgameStudier wrote:
kathleencleans wrote:
Really???You are giving way too much power to a color.
Oh please, the entire forum background is white.
And cc has never mentioned a dark theme, even then why is the white theme the default
DevynKarsakoff wrote:
If black moved first you would think that it is racist so we should make them one color and see how that works
progressive chess then...
Nov 16, 2019
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#55
I've never seen a person who is actually black, or a person who is actually white. I don't get it?
ABC_of_EVERYTHING wrote:
i just today observed in city bus about how the passengers are fighting with handyman and driver about how they should preserve their advantage over other bus by not collecting passengers and move empty seated through the journey infront of other buses.
Well it always upsets me that the passengers have to pay, yet the driver always gets the best seat and doesn't pay !
Haverumwilltravel wrote:
I am offended that the king and queen represent both genders.
I am offended there's no chess piece to represent homosexuality
Mi_Amigo wrote:
Haverumwilltravel wrote:
I am offended that the king and queen represent both genders.
I am offended there's no chess piece to represent homosexuality
Bishops insist on screwing squares of their own color, there you go.
I love how a 100,000 ton castle can leap across the battlefield to the other side spontaneously, but a horse can only run 3 squares at a time...what a logical war...
