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The other day a chess podcast was taken down for no good reason. The host had over 1800 videos on chess. No violence. No profanity. Just chess. The conjecture was the algorithms caught is “white is better in this position” and interpreted that in a racial way or something. Will chess have to change its colors for the PC crowd?


7 posted on 06/29/2020 6:30:47 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Money can't buy happiness, BUT it can buy guns and ammo which is pretty much the same thing.)
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“The other day a chess podcast was taken down for no good reason. The host had over 1800 videos on chess. No violence. No profanity. Just chess. The conjecture was the algorithms caught is “white is better in this position” and interpreted that in a racial way or something. Will chess have to change its colors for the PC crowd?”

Youtube went on a Nazi hunt awhile back and hundreds of documentary-type videos on WW2 were purged and history themed channels banned. I think at least some of them made it back. So, yeah, there’s just no rhyme or reason - just maybe a vague idea that crawls up their butt and they go out cancelling.


18 posted on 06/29/2020 7:12:21 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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The other day a chess podcast was taken down for no good reason. The host had over 1800 videos on chess. No violence. No profanity. Just chess. The conjecture was the algorithms caught is “white is better in this position” and interpreted that in a racial way or something. Will chess have to change its colors for the PC crowd?

The "advertisers" don't like racist stuff.

20 posted on 06/29/2020 7:16:45 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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Will chess have to change its colors for the PC crowd?

Grey moves his bishop to threaten grays king.
Gray counters by blocking gray with gray’s queen putting gray in check. Gray concedes to gray.


29 posted on 06/29/2020 7:57:28 PM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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Chess is racist because white always moves first.


35 posted on 06/29/2020 9:12:40 PM PDT by tballard56
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