Systemic Racism in Chess: White moves first.

I agree fundamentally with what you say. I like random designs and colors for the pieces and the squares on the checkered board, but refer to the players as “The Initial” and ”The Subsequent”. For the pieces, I would refer to the king as “short range prize”, the queen as “tridimensional long range mover”, the bishops as “unidimensional diagonal monochromatic long range mover 1” (and 2), the knight as “unique bichromatic short range mover 1” (and 2), the rook as “bidimensional long range mover 1” (and 2), and pawns as “patriotic heroes who would never disrespect the flag”

You're actually creating more racism by making this post. Congrats

You can change to Black First in the options.

What about games like Draughts or Go where black moves first?  Is that not "racist" too.  What about the fact that the Queen, while being outnumbered by males, is the most powerful piece on the board.  Is that not sexist or feminist?

As pointed out before, the matter of not making chess notation confusing needs to be address before starting colour can be randomised.

Read this article.

And this one too.

my mistake, never mind.

I thought I could have an interesting conversation.

Like my poor chess playing, my judgment continues to be lacking. 

ah, but with perfect play black can draw. so they say.

how about we change things to blue and red

Agreed. Please let it go. 

Any idiot that claims chess is racist should remember this.

There is no such thing as White people.  We are Caucasian.

In chess, White goes first, not Caucasian.  Therefore, chess is not racist!

And also, there are more games where Black goes first than White (or red in the case of checkers):

Chess - White

Checkers - Black

Go - Black

Othello (a.k.a.Reversi) - Black

Backgammon - Whoever rolls the higher number at face-off.

The origins of chess date back to 3rd century India. I doubt racism was a factor.