[BenLurkin]

"chess is racist because it’s customary for the white pieces to move first

[wrcase]

Garry Kasparov is an anti-Trump shit-heel who hangs around with the Bill Kristol crowd. If he’s pissed, I’m happy

[Mouton]

Anyone spouting that dribble is probably confusing chess with something they put their cloths into in their bed room.

[LeonardFMason]

Ban OREO cookies!

WHITE separating BLACKS!

[wildbill]

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.

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

"Racism" has become this generation's boy who cried "Wolf!"

The word has completely lost its umph. It is only used by those for whom the debate is already lost.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

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.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

This started on 4chan.

[ChildOfThe60s]

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

[I want the USA back]

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.

[karnage]

We live in the Dumbozoic Era.

[American Infidel]

Chess pieces are inanimate objects. They don't have a 'race' or a "racial identity".

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.

[Beowulf9]

OMG!!!

[Stosh]

I’ve got the only solution that will please the left: make all the pieces the same color.

Yeah, okay, maybe that will lead to some confusion and general chaos by the middle of the game, but that’s what the left is all about, isn’t it? Seattle, Minneapolis, and all the rest on a little checked piece of cardboard?

[libh8er]

What is even more racist is that far more games are won as white (fact) because white has the 'privilege' of going first. But it doesn't stop there. A typical scenario in which a game has an outcome (most games between strong players actually end in a draw), the black king is checkmated by the white forces. In a checkmate the black King is pinned to a square unable to move to any other square while also being attacked on the square he is on. You could say the black king is.. um.. for lack of a better description .. chained by the white forces.

Now if that isn't enough reason to burn down a chess tournament venue..

[mjp]

flip a coin to see who gets what color. Then flip the coin again to see who moves first.

[smvoice]

*😳*. Just *😳*. My mind is officially blown now.

[GoldenPup]

...questioning if chess is 'racist'.

Unmitigated Bullshit. 🐂💩