Rooperi, I've been to Soweto myself, and was under the impression that due to its enormous size this "neighborhood" is really a town on its own. Certainly in the area where Nelson Mandela lived, one could feel safe to walk around. Even in the poorest areas, the people were friendly and welcoming.
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FIDE chess rankings provide another reason for sexist jokes: women chessmasters are always so behind in rankings, separate rank liststs are made for women players even tho women and men compete in the same tournaments.
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A youtuber with 200,000 subscribers found this thread and included in his "Everything is Sexist" Music Video, haha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRquPxdHNGE
Google Patrick Moore to see many other comments that were considered racist. The fascist organisations liked him a lot too. I suppose he could have just been senile to come out with such stuff but I've known many senile people who don't suddenly become racist. Chess is neither racist or sexist but a game played by people who may be both. Interesting that there's so few female players though.
IMHO all the pieces bar the King are gays.
This is evidently so, because they have nowhere else to turn to, and have not taken steps to procure themselves with females.
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TheOldReb wrote:
People that find things like racism and sexism in a game like chess are nothing but sad, trouble making individuals. They should be simply ignored.
Black lives matter.
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JuliusSneezer7 wrote:
Bumping matters also ! .........bumping is only done on Sunday 🤷♂️
But TheOldReb feels that BLM people are "nothing but sad, trouble making individuals." What do you have to say about this, TheOldReb?
I don’t think it’s sexist or racist. The queen is the most powerful and white starts, yet it’s not like the game originated in a country with white privilege.
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GoldaA1 wrote:
I don’t think it’s sexist or racist. The queen is the most powerful and white starts, yet it’s not like the game originated in a country with white privilege.
The queen is strong, but the king commands the queen. The king on the chessboard is you. The commander is assumed to be male. And the game did get significant influence from the medieval European period, hence the design of the pieces.
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In the early 80's, in South Africa we regularly went to play (interracial) tournaments in Soweto. At that time such a thing was unheard of in any other sport. At that time, Johannesburg Chess club had many players of colour, and all tournaments were open to anybody with the entry fee.
So, while anybody can try to read some obscure signicance into the history or rules, imo the game itself rises above all that.