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nasir391

Magnus Carlsen broke this rule and he started first with black pieces to give important message to the world. see details:

https://www.chessonly.com/magnus-carlsen-breaking-the-basic-rule-in-chess/

notmtwain
nasir391 wrote:

Magnus Carlsen broke this rule and he started first with black pieces to give important message to the world. see details:

https://www.chessonly.com/magnus-carlsen-breaking-the-basic-rule-in-chess/

Why not switch the board direction too?

Why is white on the right?

 

nasir391
notmtwain wrote:
nasir391 wrote:

Magnus Carlsen broke this rule and he started first with black pieces to give important message to the world. see details:

https://www.chessonly.com/magnus-carlsen-breaking-the-basic-rule-in-chess/

Why not switch the board direction too?

Why is white on the right?

 

Lets tweet to magnus to make another MOVE!

MickinMD

Equating the color or pieces with human races is ridiculous in my view, so I don't see that this is an "important message to the world" by moving a black piece first.

Next, I guess, someone will drive through a red light to protest the treatment of the American Indians compared to the yellow Asian races, and they are called "Native Americans" even though their ancestors emigrated to the continent from Asia.

 

SeniorPatzer

"The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which was initiated in 1966, "is an opportunity for people around the world to renew their commitment to making our world a place of justice and dignity, where all races are treated equally."" 

Another good move would be to condemn anti-Semitism.  Also known as Jew hatred. Wherever it is found. 

And for the record, I'm not Jewish. I have seen folks condemn racism who simultaneously support or condone anti-Semitism. That's so horribly hypocritical. 

Chess requires a certain amount of objectivity. And from an objective standpoint, if you are striving to treat all races equally, then that means that you can't discriminate against Jewish people. 

And for whatever reason, it seems that discrimination against Jews is an acceptable prejudice by those who scream the loudest about how awful racism is.

P.S. FWIW, I'm well aware that Jewish people have both an ethnic and religious component.

Colin20G

Leave chess outside politics please...

Colin20G

As if chess pieces colors were skin color.

 

Colin20G

This will do NOTHING against racism but instead divide people further, for the worse. Already indoctrinated minority youth may equate chess with some form of oppression and may refrain themselves from learning the game, seen as a "wypipo activity where whitey start".

Chess had never had any relationship with race, it is this very day that the game has been turned into a racial symbol.

 

White and black are dresses in the first place, nothing more.

 

 

 

Game_Destroyer_1

If ever there was an example of embarrassing oneself with the sheer stupidity of the whole notion, then this would come close.