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The earliest known chess pieces date from 761 AD. The game had been around hundreds of years at that stage. Earliest notations spoke of Red versus Black. The white goes first rule dates from 1880, when a Jewish Hungarian suggested the rule at a new York tournament. To overcome any advantage of playing first, players must play an equal number of games as black. A little like Rugby when you think about it, if you kick off the first half, you will be receiving in the second half. Racism exists. Absurdity too. So chess isn’t racist, people are.I wonder where it will all go. I thought to say "end up" but maybe it will never end up:
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Mr Adams told Ben Fordham the argument has been circulating in chess circles for years.
Issues like the denying the history of policy differentiation and violence towards Indigenous Australians. Labels can be used in an exclusionary, often derogatory fashion to refer to a social group.A Sydney-based ABC producer asked former Australian Chess representative John Adams to comment on whether the game was racist because white always moves first.
His reply : “All of this stuff is completely ridiculous. We’ve got bigger issues that are facing Australia and I don’t want the ABC talking about this sort of nonsense.”
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