“Let The (Chess) Games Begin”
I have a long history with the game of chess. My dad taught me how to play as a young boy – You must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
I have a long history with the game of chess. My dad taught me how to play as a young boy – You must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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I thought this was going to be a “piece” about the Speaker’s race.
The House can play better without it’s bitch.
Well played!
FITS, can you pul-eeze do something about the press conference the city called this morning, where they said parts of the city will be without clean water for WEEKS? Does anyone know about this work being done on the road over the Lake Murray dam, reducing it to two lanes, that they say is completely unrelated to the storm but is being done now anyway, further bottle-necking traffic and taking workers away from obviously more pressing road work, unless of course they are lying about the real reason? And how Richland County has been missing in action this whole time? Sorry to be off topic, but in Lexington you aren’t suffering like we are over here in craptown. You seem to have contacts, maybe you can provide us with more information than the shitty manager, who made a comment that things are back on track because today she wore heels instead of rainboots, yuk yuk. I wish they all had one neck.
Good article, Will…..
Back when I was in the Navy, an old First Class Radioman taught me how to play a decent game of Chess for a beginner. He beat everyone he played, guess he had been at it for years.
Was he black? Really?
How many black grandmaster’s do you know?
None. Don’t know any white grandmasters either.
What percentage of grandmasters have historically been white compared to black?
Don’t Know. What percentage were named Melvin?
“Don’t Know.”
You should look it up. It might be relevant.
“What percentage were named Melvin?”
Did you mean Marvin?
For decades Blacks in Amerikkka could be legally hanged for learning to read or write. I wonder what the punishment would have been for learning to play chess. Capablanca, the Cuban World Champion, who went undefeated for eight years was a gentleman(and ladies’ man) of color. And Ambassador to the U. S.
You make a reasonable argument-
So contain your research to a post civil rights era time frame and let us know what you find.
If you’re looking to expand the window for statistical reasons, than you can adjust for slavery in black America and explain to us what’s happened to the African continent post colonialism.
I’ll think you’ll find that blacks are statistically under-represented(you probably already know this, hence the argument you’re making).
Now we can argue back and forth as to “why”, but Bible Thumper up there might gain an appreciation eventually as to why Sic Willie pointed out the good chess player was “black” even though it might offend the PC sensibilities of him & others.
That again, we all know BT has an axe to grind against Willie because Willie has an axe to grind against Haley- so in the end rationality might not matter.
What happened to Africa post colonialism was neo-colonialism.
In some areas. It can be accounted for statistically for a larger sample.
How many white Americans have been World Chess Champions?
Chess, no way, I spent every night last week trying to beat Solitaire on my tablet.
When I quit smoking I became a Freecell freak.When people call it Solitare I say thats like calling Chess Checkers!
Those games really do get addictive. I am not a big TV watcher and getting into these shorter days, I find myself playing a variety of basic computer games.
Will, I’d love to play a game of chess with you! I have an account on Chess.com if you have one. http://en.lichess.org/ is a good site to play on without making an account. Euwe Max, a regular in the comment section, is pretty good at the game, I think I only beat him once in the three or four games we played.