Activists protest against chess as 'racist'

Is chess racist ?

  • Yes

    Votes: 3 2.8%

  • No

    Votes: 96 89.7%

  • I'll elaborate further in the thread

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Giant radioactive chess-playing racist monkey

    Votes: 8 7.5%
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A group of activists , calling themselves the 'Society for racial equality" , have lodged their protest , saying that chess is racist in that the two opposing sides being named black and white and giving white the first move is racits and promotes racism indirectly .

What is it with these crackpots ? Chess is racist ? I'd say it's a case og getting too psyched up over nothing .
 
Hilarious! :lol: Doesn't people have better use of their time than this? Like watching paint dry or something like that?
 
It's sexist too. The Queen is more powerful, but if you kill the King, you lose. Totally outrageous. It's also biased towards the Roman Catholic Church with it's bishops. And it encourages cruelty to animals by killing horses. And it encourages a Monarchy. And communism -- THE PAWNS OF THE WORLD MUST UNITE TO OVERTHROW THE KING!!!
 
I don't see how letting white go first indicates white superiority. Personally I prefer to be the blacks, let my opponent take the first move- I prefer to be second, because it lets me figure out my opponents plans quicker. :)
 
~Corsair#01~ said:
I don't see how letting white go first indicates white superiority. Personally I prefer to be the blacks, let my opponent take the first move- I prefer to be second, because it lets me figure out my opponents plans quicker. :)
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Yeah, plus, it's funny copying your opponents openning moves identically.
 
Baseball is insensitive to homeless people, because the home team gets to hit last.
 
Mise said:
Yeah, plus, it's funny copying your opponents openning moves identically.
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I think going first gets you a definite advantage. You'd have to check with one of the local chess gurus though.
 
Mise said:
It's sexist too. The Queen is more powerful, but if you kill the King, you lose. Totally outrageous. It's also biased towards the Roman Catholic Church with it's bishops. And it encourages cruelty to animals by killing horses. And it encourages a Monarchy. And communism -- THE PAWNS OF THE WORLD MUST UNITE TO OVERTHROW THE KING!!!
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You type in black! That's racist! Death to you!
 
The first word that comes to mind is a bannable offense, here. The second word is 'morons'.

Flippin' morons.
 
The Last Conformist said:
You type in black! That's racist! Death to you!
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Now now, lets not get silly about this. I had the choice of typing in black OR white (edit: or blue). In chess, there IS NO CHOICE!!! ONLY THE WHITE MAN GOES FIRST!!!
 
There are chess games that have white and red peices. I suppose the native peoples of north america should be upset, as well.

God forbid someone make green peices. The martians would raise hell.
 
John HSOG said:
There are chess games that have white and red peices. I suppose the native peoples of north america should be upset, as well.

God forbid someone make green peices. The martians would raise hell.
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Depends which one gets to move first.
 
Yes...

So, if I play chess, now, do I have to be the white peices and only play black people [oops], errr, African Americans?
 
Jesus. Chess was invented by coloured peoples.
Cant they find any better instances of racism to attend to?
 
Quote: It's sexist too. The Queen is more powerful, but if you kill the King, you lose. Totally outrageous. It's also biased towards the Roman Catholic Church with it's bishops. And it encourages cruelty to animals by killing horses. And it encourages a Monarchy. And communism -- THE PAWNS OF THE WORLD MUST UNITE TO OVERTHROW THE KING!!!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :clap:
 
Rout said:
Jesus. Chess was invented by coloured peoples.
Cant they find any better instances of racism to attend to?
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This is something I've been pondering for a while: who was it that invented chess, where, and when? :hmm:
 
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