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 hed received a call from a producer at ABC Sydney asking if hed 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 ...
Nothing to worry about. The blm supporters are much too stupid to know the first thing about chess.
So, it is obvious to see how reazist chess is;
1) It supports 'White Privilege' with white pieces and white first move.
2) It is played on a checkerboard of light and dark squares.
3) It permits a Black King to be checkmated, a poorly disguised word for killed!
4) Minority players have to play under the same rules as non-minority players, ignoring the centuries of oppression.
5) High ranking, winning players, are awarded MASTER titles, perpetuating plantation culture.
FIDE, the Fédération Internationale des Échecs, as the ruling body in world-wide chess, must fix these problems immediately AND as punishment for their blatant thought-crime, pay redemption fees to anyone asking for money, anywhere at all. Down with the MASTERS!
Don’t be surprised if there is a real push by the leftists to get rid of Master. We live in crazy times.
Not a chess player. But does the first move put white in more danger. (Putting their neck out)? Also, do chess masters when in a match, choose one color over the other? Does one color dominate the other in frequency of winning?
Merely seeking to determine whether this chessmen color/racism meme has any validity, or if it’s just more lib bull feces.
I know that you are writing this in sarcastic mode, but most boards in use I have seen are green and white. The last time I tried to use a back and white board, my opponent complained that he could not see the black pieces clearly.
I think you mean that white wins more of the games which are not draws. White wins less than 50% of the total number of games played, but more than black.
Side bar: I used to love chess, but it got to be too frustrating. In a book by Horowitz he offered a couple of variations. One was to hide your opponent’s side of the board (we used record album covers) as you arranged the pieces any way that you wanted. Your opponent did the same. When ready, we removed the albums, revealing the whole board.. and played.
Fun times.
Ans.: No, it is that White establishes a battleground that Black must respond to. There are multiple known attacks and defenses for both sides. A frequent tool of modern Chess is consulting the database of published games to see if a game has had the same poitions after 'x' moves and the outcome(s).
2) Also, do chess masters when in a match, choose one color over the other?
Ans.: The first game starts with one player holding a different color pawn in each hand. The opponent chooses one and plays that color. After that, the played colors rotate between the players.
3) Does one color dominate the other in frequency of winning?
Ans.: White does have a slight historical advantage percentage of 6-7% I believe. First moves is an advantage but, really, HOW ELSE WOULD THE GAME BE PLAYED???
Yes, the complaints are PURE MALE BOVINE EXCREMENT!
Yes, I meant there are more 1-0 outcomes than 0-1 outcomes.
Don’t be surprised if there is a push to reverse the colors of a piano keyboard.
No more white squares on the chess board.
We must ban every use of the colors white and black, universally, in or on EVERYTHING. /sarc
Some baroque keyboards were already like that.
Why isn't it "racist" for black to play first in Go? They are looking for an excuse to b**ch about white people.
One persn takes a piece, usually a pawn of each color, places them in his/her hands and puts them behind his back; unseen by the other player; who then chooses which hand he/she wants.
The owner of the white piece begins play.
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