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Sydney radio station asks if chess is racist because white always moves first
https://7news.com.au/sport/sydney-radio-station-asks-if-chess-is-racist-because-white-always-moves-first-c-1121419 ^ | 06/23/2020 | Joey Riordan

Posted on 06/27/2020 9:10:18 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Former Australian chess representative John Adams has hammered a Sydney radio station for asking if chess is racist because white always moves first.

Adams revealed on Tuesday he’d received a call from a producer at ABC Sydney asking if he’d contribute to a segment on racism in chess that will hit the airwaves on Wednesday.

“They called me up and asked whether I was the John Adams involved in chess,” Adams told The Daily Telegraph.

(Excerpt) Read more at 7news.com.au ...


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To: cpdiii

True, plus in round robin tournaments you play twice against each opponent, one game with each color. In swiss tournaments the pairing system tries to balance the number of times you play each color, but it is not always possible to have the same number of games with each color.


21 posted on 06/27/2020 11:16:05 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.)
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To: ealgeone

[[If there is alien life you know they avoid this planet like the plague.]]

Or they watch life play out here on their TV’s and laugh uproariously- without the need for an ‘applause sign’ or ‘Laugh’ sign blinking above the TV


22 posted on 06/27/2020 11:19:25 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

The old “like white on rice“ saying is out the window I guess


23 posted on 06/27/2020 11:23:02 PM PDT by albie
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To: Secret Agent Man


Checkers must really have them flummoxed.

oh please, king your piece?


24 posted on 06/27/2020 11:34:20 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: All

It’s all good, chess is also feminist because the queen is much more powerful than the king. And also you can’t really tell the gender of pawns or bishops or the carbon footprint of castles.


25 posted on 06/27/2020 11:52:37 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Pray for health, economic recovery, and justice.)
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To: zadox
The Babylon Bee came through one this a couple of days ago.

They're right, but these days things can also be racist if they don't exist. Bubba's "noose," for example. It was not actually a noose, but it was still racist.

26 posted on 06/27/2020 11:53:49 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: Peter ODonnell

Also I suspect knights are gay because they sure aren’t straight.


27 posted on 06/27/2020 11:54:33 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Pray for health, economic recovery, and justice.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Why is BLACK pepper so cheap, while WHITE pepper is a gourmet spice?


28 posted on 06/28/2020 12:08:26 AM PDT by LukeL
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Actually black’s strongest comeback in grandmaster level play is the Sicilian. Kasparov had won many games as black with that opening. But the vast majority of games are still won with white.


29 posted on 06/28/2020 12:12:46 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: Secret Agent Man

#14. Just think what “Chinese Checkers” would do to the mental midgets on the Left. Oh, did I say, “midget”. Not quite acclimatized to “little people” terminology yet as I don’t know any of them.

I’ve been called a “big klutz” much of my life” (bad leg). Is that “anatomy-smearing”? Oh I’m so hurt my life’s theme song has been “I’m Hurt” by Timi Yuro.


30 posted on 06/28/2020 12:30:32 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (??)
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To: albie

#23. Don’t feel bad about “like white on rice”. Uncle Ben is going down the PC crapper along with Aunt Jemina (damned good pancake mix).

Guess we’re finished is Ivory Snow’s “99.9% pure white soap”.

Now e can promote Eskimo pies with the brown long cookies on the outside and white ice-cream in between.

Crap. Chocolate donuts with yellow cake-cough inside are going to be a bitch to deal with. The same for yellow cakes with chocolate icing.

Chocolate covered Mounds and Almond Joy bars are going to drive the Left crazy, because white folk can now claim that this amounts to “black supremacy”.

This kind of idiocy could go on for decades and probably will. The “New Normal” is like Marty Feldman’s “head” in “Young Frankenstein”, “A.B. Normal”.


31 posted on 06/28/2020 12:38:22 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (??)
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To: cpdiii

> This stupidity must stop.

To continue... if the black man were a white man, then he would be guilty of taking advantage of his unearned white privilege by accepting the result which allows him the first move. Regardless of the tossup outcome, the white man must always bend the knee before every game. And the number of games that the black person wins must always be kept equal to or greater than the number of games that the white person wins, else the game itself is inherently inequitable in terms of outcomes, and therefore inherently racist, as well as the referees, who would then be also be racist. Has the international chess organization contributed a share of profits to BLM? If not the international chess organization is then also, of course, racist. And even if it did contribute to BLM this year, did it also contribute to BLM since BLM’s inception? If not, then the chess organization must be deemed to have a racist background, and garner a designation as a racist organization.

Any computers that are used to play against any black person and prevail, are hereby designated racist along with the game itself. Programs that indicate any correlation between skill and winning at chess shall be deemed racist since this is not necessarily always a racially equitable outcome, as it needs to be in order not to be considered racist. Any programmers involved in the writing of any such chess program shall be recorded in a new national database of working towards suppression of people of color, for later use in court cases as evidence of a background in hate programming. All chess sets must be destroyed— preferably, burned— whenever and wherever found. They must be banned from schools as well as chess clubs and any classes that teach chess, along with its instructors. School officials who ignore this directive do so at peril of being declared racist and immediately fired. Anyone who has ever been a member of a chess club shall be considered a member of a racist organization, potentially a hate crime in starting with laws to be passed and signed during the next legislative session in which there is a liberal majority.

If your parents ever played chess or taught you how to play chess, save yourselves trouble, and report them promptly to a friendly BLM or ANTIFA community activist in your neighborhood. Thank you.


32 posted on 06/28/2020 12:49:47 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; Fred Nerks; Byron_the_Aussie; melsec; naturalman1975

33 posted on 06/28/2020 1:06:37 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: LukeL

LOL Recently some professor complained about flesh colored bandages being,you guessed it, racist. I remember George Carlin joking about this very thing on his 7 words you can’t say on TV album. Little did I know that one day a tenured professor with a bunch of letters after her name, for all her pseudo intellectualism would get her panties in a wad over somethibg so silly.


34 posted on 06/28/2020 1:17:34 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: mylife

Black Chessmen Matter


35 posted on 06/28/2020 1:44:16 AM PDT by nonsporting (MAGA -- Make America Godly Again)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

“reminded me of the “black guy always dies first” phenomenon in movies.”

About 15 minutes into a movie we predict which character is the “expendable one”. Black guy, usually, and we’re usually right. The first one taken out by the shark, serial killer, monster, etc.


36 posted on 06/28/2020 1:55:29 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: LukeL

My piano keyboard has more white keys than black ones. I’m horrified and may have to enroll myself in a diversity program to check my preference for white keys.


37 posted on 06/28/2020 1:59:57 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If it wasn’t so digustingly stupid, it would be a poor joke.


38 posted on 06/28/2020 2:33:53 AM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Lysandru

I think that he did a few. For example, there was a receptionist for the NAACP who asked for instructions on what to do when the Hulk showed up and asked to join.


39 posted on 06/28/2020 2:43:37 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: rightwingcrazy

Its seems these days many peoples mental illness is showing


40 posted on 06/28/2020 3:26:14 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (SOY Mouth)
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