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CMV: woke chess. Black or white should move first? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/382278

I'm partially memeing bc i get that it's a game from like 3000 yrs ago, but its a very easy modification.

Is there a reason why this isn't done? Or changing the colors to something else? (Blue vs red, which seems to be video game standard)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It's incorrect, inflammatory and counter-productive to imply the team colours in chess are racial and not just two arbitrary contrasting colours. The equivocation of skin tones to anything remotely 'black' or 'white' is a harmful attitude.

Do whatever you feel like. Chess variants exist. Flip a coin to pick who goes first. It's just silly to try and introduce politics into the artificially symmetrical game.