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Obviously your comment is sarcastic, but this is worth correcting: Chess is a Eurocentric Chess came from Persia, or maybe India, and spread both east and west
by dogorman 5y ago
Obviously your comment is sarcastic, but this is worth correcting: Chess is a Eurocentric
Chess came from Persia, or maybe India, and spread both east and west along the silk road trade routes.
- akho 5y agoThat's a bit of a misconception. Modern chess is European. Shatranj was a much less dynamic and interesting game.
- egman_ekki 5y agoWell, it seems it was culturally appropriated by Europeans.
- tk75x 5y agoThat part makes the comment even better, IMO. It paints the speaker as someone ignorant enough not only to go after the black/white convention in chess but also as not knowing the origins or details of the issue at hand(which is usually the case when people are virtue signalling).