Will you quit playing?

The whiners are saying chess is racist because white moves first.
So their idea is a coin toss to see who moves first 🤣

In checkers black moves first.
In Go black moves first.

If they change chess I will quit.
(I was never any good anyways 😉 )

I'm in favour of getting rid of the black pieces all together and picking a new colour.

Grey would look nice.

Red and white chess sets were very common in Victorian times. I've heard that this was because of the War of the Roses (red for Lancashire, white for Yorkshire). Black pieces started to become more common than red as light and dark-coloured woods started to be used more than bone and ivory. If the wood was dark enough (e.g. ebony) then the dark pieces didn't need staining at all.

I believe that in matches in those days you'd have one colour for the whole match and red/white would alternate in moving first. This would also be the case for a series of games played in one session.

Of course the boards would not have had the A-H / 1-8 along the sides as the moves were recorded in descriptive notation (or an even more cumbersome version of it - "bishop to kings square" ) which describes the move from the point of view of the person making it. For example K-Q1 would be Kd1 if it was a White move and Kd8 if it was a Black, ahem, Red, one.

Red and White looks good.

Red might play aggressively because of the psychological effect red has on people.

Studies show teams with red jerseys tend to be more aggressive.

@uglytoproll
I own a set with orange and blue pieces and matching board without letters or numbers 😉

That would hurt my eyes.

@uglytoproll said
The whiners are saying chess is racist because white moves first.
So their idea is a coin toss to see who moves first 🤣

In checkers black moves first.
In Go black moves first.

If they change chess I will quit.
(I was never any good anyways 😉 )

Ignore it, it will go away when the idiots get fed up and move onto something else.
They don't really think it's racist, it's a "we have the power to change things" situation.
It'll never happen.
The same group of activists are saying statues of Jesus shuld be removed because he was a white supremacist.
He wasn't even white.
Where does it all end -dismantle the pyramids at Giza because they were built with slave labour?
Most of these activists are like others before them-just jumping on a bandwagon for fun.
Like the idiots who go to English football matches and shout "scab" when Nottingham play.
Most of them weren't even born in 1984 and have no idea what they are shouting about.
Social media is largely to blame.
It should be banned in my opinion.
It's dangerous and causes more trouble than the good it does.
Sorry for ranting on.
I forgot this was a chess only forum

@venda
No don't, a lot of what you said there (above) is bang on.[edit] perhaps best, toss it overboard to el duce in the debates🚬

@venda

You are 100% right.

@uglytoproll said
The whiners are saying chess is racist because white moves first.
So their idea is a coin toss to see who moves first 🤣

In checkers black moves first.
In Go black moves first.

If they change chess I will quit.
(I was never any good anyways 😉 )

Will you quit playing?


No I won't quit playing. I've rediscovered my love for chess after a long layoff; and would very much appreciate you confine your posts to chess in this forum, and take your political views elsewhere.

This IS about chess.

@uglytoproll
And (title) it's resolved, move on.

We will miss you.

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