in light of the recent struggles in the United States, I think that black should start and not white. White starting is an obvious example of white supremacy and the white peoples need to feel superior to all other races, especially the blacks. Nothing is as blatantly racist as this fact, which for some reason most people ignore. Lichess should adress this problem imediately.
It's just a game.
But chess was invented 1000 years ago, lichess.org cant do anything about it. but cuz probably last time blacks were slaves. so maybe that was the reason :(
Carlsen and Giri did this one year ago. Moveforequality : youtu.be/VPFI3-W8Fqo
Oh, great!
Chess was invented in INDIA and spread to the ARAB world hundreds of years ago. So it has nothing to do with white people or black people. White people adopted the rules of the game and didn’t invent the rule that white starts first. Not everything is racist around you. You are choosing to see evil where there is none. This is a game.
@Nlindop very well said
Chess may not be racist, but you sure seem to be. Creating a straw man argument because you are upset, for some reason, that black people in the US are asking to be treated with equality by law enforcement.
Chess in its current form does not truly represent racism properly. Here I'll make up a variant of chess that would accurately represent racism in the world of today.
The board used is a 4 player chessboard. The four-piece colors will be White, black, yellow, and brown.
White = White people
Black = Black people
Yellow = Asian people
Brown = Everyone else
-At the start of the game White only has about 10% of the pieces on the board, but more power pieces on average. White refers to all the pieces as a "minority group" in spite of them having other pieces for some reason.
-Every turn black gets 4 free pawns to place
-Every turn yellow gets 3 free pawns to place
-Every turn brown gets 2 free pawns to place
-Every turn white gets 1 free pawn to place
(These rules reflect birth rates.)
The teams are everyone gangs up on white. 3 on 1 handicap match.
(This rule represents the white genocide theory)
Yellow starts with all yellow pieces in his starting area of the board.
Black starts with all black pieces in his starting area of the board.
Brown starts with all brown pieces in his starting area of the board.
White starts with only 70% white pieces in his starting area. Half of the other pieces are black, and the other half belong to the other two.
(This represents a lack of diversity in nonwhite countries)
All black pieces are kings.
(Because the whole "We wuz kangs!" thing come on... gotta be that way.)
Any time a black piece moves within range of a white piece a dice is rolled and then the white piece moves that many squares away in any direction of its choice.
(This represents white flight)
To promote white pawns and yellow pawns must make it all the way to the other side of the board. Black and Brown pawns only need to make it to the center of the board.
(This represents affirmative action)
White gets the first move, then yellow, then brown, and black is last.
(This rule represents white privilege)
Black kings moving directly in front of other black kings are to be captured by the black king from behind.
(This represents high rates of black on black violence.)
When black pawns promote a coin is tossed. 50/50 shot to simply lose the pawn and 50% for another kang
(Represents the 50% rate of black abortions in the US)
Yellow must cough all over the board at the start of each turn, and all other players lose 1 piece at random.
(Represents covid-19)
The game is to be videotaped. Any time a white piece captures a black piece the camera zooms in on the capture. Only thse captures are kept, any other captures are edited out. The cameraman then goes over to the black player and whispers in his ear, "Are you gonna take that shit from whitey?"
(This represents media representation of racism)
After black reviews, the edited videotape black will walk to the local wendy's and light it on fire.
(This represents the BLM movment and it's terrorism)
This game has no winners and everyone loses. Probably best not to play it.
The board used is a 4 player chessboard. The four-piece colors will be White, black, yellow, and brown.
White = White people
Black = Black people
Yellow = Asian people
Brown = Everyone else
-At the start of the game White only has about 10% of the pieces on the board, but more power pieces on average. White refers to all the pieces as a "minority group" in spite of them having other pieces for some reason.
-Every turn black gets 4 free pawns to place
-Every turn yellow gets 3 free pawns to place
-Every turn brown gets 2 free pawns to place
-Every turn white gets 1 free pawn to place
(These rules reflect birth rates.)
The teams are everyone gangs up on white. 3 on 1 handicap match.
(This rule represents the white genocide theory)
Yellow starts with all yellow pieces in his starting area of the board.
Black starts with all black pieces in his starting area of the board.
Brown starts with all brown pieces in his starting area of the board.
White starts with only 70% white pieces in his starting area. Half of the other pieces are black, and the other half belong to the other two.
(This represents a lack of diversity in nonwhite countries)
All black pieces are kings.
(Because the whole "We wuz kangs!" thing come on... gotta be that way.)
Any time a black piece moves within range of a white piece a dice is rolled and then the white piece moves that many squares away in any direction of its choice.
(This represents white flight)
To promote white pawns and yellow pawns must make it all the way to the other side of the board. Black and Brown pawns only need to make it to the center of the board.
(This represents affirmative action)
White gets the first move, then yellow, then brown, and black is last.
(This rule represents white privilege)
Black kings moving directly in front of other black kings are to be captured by the black king from behind.
(This represents high rates of black on black violence.)
When black pawns promote a coin is tossed. 50/50 shot to simply lose the pawn and 50% for another kang
(Represents the 50% rate of black abortions in the US)
Yellow must cough all over the board at the start of each turn, and all other players lose 1 piece at random.
(Represents covid-19)
The game is to be videotaped. Any time a white piece captures a black piece the camera zooms in on the capture. Only thse captures are kept, any other captures are edited out. The cameraman then goes over to the black player and whispers in his ear, "Are you gonna take that shit from whitey?"
(This represents media representation of racism)
After black reviews, the edited videotape black will walk to the local wendy's and light it on fire.
(This represents the BLM movment and it's terrorism)
This game has no winners and everyone loses. Probably best not to play it.
I honestly cant tell if this is serious or not. I hate it when stuff like this comes up in games.
"WhY CaNt BlAcK MoVe fIRst??"
Well, doesn't that mean that you now encourage black supremacy?
Leave chess alone. If you think its racist, go play by your own rules with your friends or something, don't bring this political nonsense here.
"WhY CaNt BlAcK MoVe fIRst??"
Well, doesn't that mean that you now encourage black supremacy?
Leave chess alone. If you think its racist, go play by your own rules with your friends or something, don't bring this political nonsense here.
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