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[Frederick Foresight]

True story:

A few years ago, a black teen National Master was receiving a lot of attention and publicity. Obviously because he was black, not because being a chess NM as a teenage boy is rare (it isn’t).

I was in an elevator with an elderly black lady at the Westgate Hotel in Las Vegas. It was the National Open. She struck up a conversation with me and talked proudly about her grandson the famous chess teen. I had not heard of the kid so I looked up his history when I got to my room.

Some months later at the North American Open he got caught red-handed cheating. He was in a restroom stall consulting Stockfish on his phone during his game against a Chinese teenage Grandmaster. The GM’s dad followed the kid to the restroom and suspected he was cheating and looked into the stall.

All hell broke loose. The black kid and his family went berserk deflecting blame and threatening to sue the tournament organizer and wanting the police to be called on the GM kid’s dad.

Bottom line, nothing was done to the black kid for cheating. I don’t recall if he even forfeited the game. At the minimum, cheating results in an automatic forfeit and getting kicked out of the tournament.

I’m sure it wasn’t the first time the kid cheated. Being black has its privileges in the chess world. Maurice Ashley is a prime example.

Oh, well. That says it all. Are we ready to make a pronouncement about the whole race thing now?

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Ah, there's that dog-whistle.

I see firsthand the unfairness based on race.

Through eyeholes, no doubt.

 

[savoir]

I am very much paying attention. You are following around one black kid who was caught cheating and are using that as an example for the whole race. We have proven that you can find misbehaving kids in any race.

Your inferiority complex is showing quite heavily. "This is the one thing I have and goddamnit if I am not going to use it against black kids".

I’m using it as an example of preferential treatment of blacks in chess. You keep trying to twist it around that I’m saying blacks are predisposed to cheating.

I get it. You are having difficulty coping with the truth. Take your inferiority complex and stick it up your ass.

 

[Pricechange]

regardless of junewhatever day...we still got free speech. At least i thought we had free speech. At one time i know we had free speech.

 

[savoir]

You ever think that maybe there are simply more men interested in chess than women, and that this selection/sampling bias might have an impact?

Not true in scholastic chess. The opportunities for girls are huge. Lots of 501(c)3 money for girls chess. I have coached more girls than boys.

 

[savoir]

Oh, well. That says it all. Are we ready to make a pronouncement about the whole race thing now?

Ah, there's that dog-whistle.


Through eyeholes, no doubt.

Think what you want. I make no apologies. I’ve lived with racism all my life.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

I’ve lived with racism all my life.

As a white guy?

 

[savoir]

As a white guy?

You’re not too bright.

 

[TheDawn]

It's got nothing to do with accepting what you're saying. It's got to do with you could make things better if you just... shut up.

Instead, we get juneteenth because people like you just can't refrain from telling everyone your opinion and acting it out in real life.

No we got juneteenth because of an incompetent and useless head of the government who doesn't know how to govern the country to make everybody's lives better so all he can do is resort to superficial means like declaring holidays to appease special interest groups in order to pacify the mass. This is the real problem, has nothing to do with people expressing their opinion.

 

[zdreg]

t one time i know we had free speech.

Correct. Go on college campuses. Free speech is in the past usurped by a bunch of semi-literates, backed by fearful college administrators.
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[nooby_mcnoob]

I’m using it as an example of preferential treatment of blacks in chess. You keep trying to twist it around that I’m saying blacks are predisposed to cheating.

I get it. You are having difficulty coping with the truth. Take your inferiority complex and stick it up your ass.

Nope. You said "is it racist to say black people aren't good at chess".

You, even when faced with evidence that white parents will do the same thing as those black parents, then chose to say it is preferential treatment of blacks that allowed him to get away with it, not the fact that the parents fought hard for the kid.

You then go on to say that "there is no way I actually act like this in real life" with the implication being you treat blacks equally.

Sure buddy.

I'm not the one with an inferiority complex because I don't care about others relative to me. I am always trying to beat me.

No we got juneteenth because of an incompetent and useless head of the government who doesn't know how to govern the country to make everybody's lives better so all he can do is resort to superficial means like declaring holidays to appease special interest groups in order to pacify the mass. This is the real problem, has nothing to do with people expressing their opinion.

The history of juneteenth (apparently) is that it started in texas

As a white guy?

He's very obviously Asian.

Ah, there's that dog-whistle.

I saw this too. Can't make it any more transparent. These guys are morons.