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Posted on 06/26/2020 9:09:11 AM PDT by Olog-hai
After an Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Sydney radio station posed the question if chess is racist because it’s customary for the white pieces to move first, Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov and former Australian chess representative John Adams took to Twitter to slam the notion, calling it “bull—” and a waste of taxpayer dollars.
Adams noted that ABC contacted him to make a comment on the segment, which is intended to run Wednesday. “They called me up and asked whether I was the John Adams involved in chess,” Adams told the Daily Telegraph. “Then they said with everything going on, they wanted to have a conversation about white going first (in chess) — and the racial context of whether white should go first. I said I’m no longer involved, but I passed them along to another person.” […]
Kasparov told those unhappy with the rule, that white pieces in chess move first, than they should pick up another game, instead of using taxpayer money to probe into the rule’s origins.
“If you are worried that the game of chess is racist, please take up ‘Go’, where black moves first, instead of looking foolish by wasting taxpayer money at a state broadcaster to ‘investigate,’” Kasparov said. …
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Garry Kasparov is an anti-Trump shit-heel who hangs around with the Bill Kristol crowd. If he’s pissed, I’m happy
Anyone spouting that dribble is probably confusing chess with something they put their cloths into in their bed room.
Ban OREO cookies!
WHITE separating BLACKS!
Not only does white move first, in newpaper chess problems the white board usually wins.
Oh, the horror, the horror. Worse than turkeys falling out of the sky.
The word has completely lost its umph. It is only used by those for whom the debate is already lost.
Brothers and sisters of color unite against the blue-eyed, white devil slave masters!
To assist the confused who get angry about the color of chess pieces, the white pieces in chess are not the same color as white people. The black pieces in chess are not the same color as black people. They are just the colors used for the pieces in a game, they don’t have anything to do with human racial issues.
What about checkers?
How about Chinese Checkers?
Battleship? Stratego? War?
Risk?
Those are BLM cookies. Blacks surrounding whites. Klondike Bar?
This started on 4chan.
The fact that so many people are taking this kind of thing seriously tells me that they are capable of anything
If they get power, I have no doubt they’re going to go full Nazi on us, or Mao, or Stalin, Khmer Rouge. Take your pick, all the same with different names. Not immediately, but it will come.
The United States is very close to going full Kosovo. Going to get very nasty if President Trump is re-elected. If Biden is elected it’s going to be hell on Earth
A game is “racist”? Insanity is spreading, I see.
The country is in the grips of yet another of those maniacal hysterical frenzies that take hold from time to time. During that time, reason and logic are banished (not that there was an awful lot of those two commodities in the USA before that) and the bandwagon effect overpowers the masses.
This one will die down and be replaced by another. Such is life in the USA of 2020.
We live in the Dumbozoic Era.
After an Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Sydney radio station posed the question if chess is racist because it’s customary for the white pieces to move first, Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov and former Australian chess representative John Adams took to Twitter to slam the notion, calling it “bull—” and a waste of taxpayer dollars.
How about this -- change the colors to red (in the US, Republican) and blue (in most of the world, synonymous with police officers), and let the posturing virtual signalling gubmint a-holes try to figure that one out.
Give in...EVERYTHING is Racist...pretty soon your local or state lottery will implement affirmative action winners
Even worse, the game was invented in India and had nothing to do with racial anything.
It is the idiots who anthropomorphize inanimate objects in order to find the "racial significance" or to look for the racist boogeyman behind every corner who are the true racists.
Kasparov put these clowns in their place. I am glad he took a stand instead of virtue-signaling. Hopefully he will not apologize later.
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