http://www.alinalami.com/2011/09/why-does-white-move-first-in-chess.html?m=1
The player with the BLACK pieces commences the game !
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Not a very well-written article, if you ask me.
Can you Elaborate please
Apr 27, 2017
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Interesting. The Wikipedia article on the Immortal Game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortal_Game) also cites the Kling and Horwitz, The Chess Player, as showing Black moved first, though it says it's a July, 1851 publication and provides a link (note 2) to the free ebook of The Chess Player at Google. Anderson moved first but modern game descriptions have given Anderson White to conform to the White-moves-first requirement now.
Is that article serious or satire? Nobody seriously thinks that chess is racist, right?
As late as the mid-to-late 19th century, the practice of White moving first had not yet become standard: it was either white or black that could start the game!