Interesting stats. Maybe chess is racist after all. ;)
Your “Spy vs Spy” reference reminded me of the “black guy always dies first” phenomenon in movies. I was watching a couple of Lifetime movies with my wife this week. One was “Psycho Nurse” or something and the psycho’s first victim was a black doctor. In the other one, the wife of a serial adulterer decides to get even with his mistresses, and the first one she killed was black. Now, most of those movies are formulaic and full of cliches, but they might want to think about avoiding that one.
“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.