Why white on right when setting up the chessboard

You need standards for orientation and spatial navigation. That's just how the brain works. This is a bit like asking why the axes in co-ordinate geometry are where they are. Erm.

The rhyme of "white" and "right" seems to only work in English. In German, "recht" does not rhyme at all with "weiss".

There is a king size board in the campground we are at and this morning it is set up with a black square in the right corner. One queen is on her own colour the other is not. Every day when I go by it is set up different. I used to correct it but because it is a never ending task I don't bother anymore. Sometimes when I see someone playing the game I go to the player who obviously is depressed about losing to tell them the game is null and void because the game was not set up correctly to start. Sometimes that gives the losing player a sigh of relief.  (8^D

For 20 months we lived without this important info.

 Does the winner then get depressed because his effort was for naught?

That was funny 

Actually, a wrongly set-up board is only a restart up until move 5, when it becomes what you're stuck with. After that, the result stands.

Not a single post got it right.

Uniformity of scoring [annotation]

And why is it in just about every movie h1 is Black?

I'm reaching back a bit, as it has been several years since I tried to find the answer. I do not recall where I read it, certainly it was in a chess book because it was long before an Internet with Browsers. 

The way I remember it, White has a ½ move advantage at the beginning. Somehow, the mathematics works out that White gains a greater advantage when the lower right hand square is black.

Don't shoot the messenger. I never tried to second-guess that explanation.

Let's experiment: next time you play, set up the board with the dark square in the corner (boards are usually green and some kind of off-white these days) and set up the pieces as you would normally. See if play is any different.

Next: set up th board this way and put the pieces according to the Queen on her color rule. Then see what happens.

Isn't that important to me to decipher "why". I'm just relaying the explanation that I read in one or more chess books years ago.

I don't know how they came up with the explanation.  It may be incorrect; but it is the only one that I have ever read about the White Square convention.

"White Square Convention"

"You need standards for orientation and spatial navigation."

No matter the language/translation, "Queen on the color, White to the right, Columns are right reading - A through H"

I have a glass chess board placed upon a turntable on the dresser in my bedroom. There is always a game in progress between my self and my other self. One makes his move and then turns the turn table 180 degrees and goes about one's business. I just now realized that the board is 90 degrees out of phase with convention. My king usually castles on the king's side... to the left, because clearing the path for castling queen side takes an extra move at least. But to the left, the king's side. Wow. I really don't think it changed the chess itself. It's a simple mirror image and you decide which is right and which... is the illusion. Whatever. But I'll synch up with the chessosphere and let you know what difference it makes from my personal experience.

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It's a convention that creates familiarity and makes it easier to talk / write about chess, like about "the importance of dark-squared bishop in the KID". (This wouldn't work if the colour of the squares changed every game. But it doesn't change the game itself... you could also play on purple or blue squares...

It is so you can distinguish yourself from all the idiots who make movies, TV shows, commercials, art-deco posters, etc. about chess because at least 90% of them INSIST on putting Black to the right.  I even once saw one of those million dollar homes shows and the wife was bragging on the husband, "Chess is his THING" and he had a giant board of granite with human size pieces constructed on his property and had man made hills built at each end. Each player would stand on a hill and direct the pieces. Guess what: you got it: Black on the Right!! Idiots.

Having one standard way of orienting the board is helpful when learning or teaching the game.  It is also good to have uniformity for the sake of accuracy in competition, and for more accurate tracking and keeping of game statistics.  To answer the question as to why white specifically is always on the right, the elephant in the room may well be that it was chosen because of the white race.  There, I said it.  Also, the fact that white always moves first has a racist ring to it.  However, the first to move in a conflict is technically the aggressor.  The fact that the white side is the aggressor could be seen as being in keeping with history and thus turning any racist or biased motive for making white first on its head.  Chess is a game that involves two sides agreeing to a game/conflict in advance.  Both sides agree that white goes first.  Both sides usually agree that the board is oriented with a white square on the far right side of the row of squares closest to each player.  No matter how you look at it, the whole "white is right" thing, and the whole "white goes first" thing can feel very wrong.  To deny any possibility that these rules were put in place with no racial biases in mind whatsoever is naive and requires at least some small level of cognitive dissonance. 

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