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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You said “boy”, you filthy racist!
Well, “boy” in older contexts did mean “servant”; the word “lad” had the same meaning in addition to a connotation with being a foot soldier.
Customary, my arse. It’s the rule.
Beautiful set, but the board is set up wrong.
They could do “Idiocracy II” purely patterned after current events.
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Leftist Media - the first ‘people’ that the mobs of betrayed people will hang .
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Nor only are the pieces set up wrong, the board is also incorrectly oriented.
1. Pawns go on the 2nd rank
2. A dark square is at the lower left of each player
We are not men; we are Devo!
We are living in an era almost impossible to satirize.
Though the Babylon Bee does a good job of it.
Haha, you’ll have to take that up with the people at The Franklin Mint
That board is not setup correctly.
And I thought I was the only one who noticed that.
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