Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:09:41 06/20/01
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On June 20, 2001 at 01:27:03, odell hall wrote: [snip] > I think the only reason we do not have more Black Grandmasters in the USA, is >because most blacks buy into the racist lie that blacks are intellectionally >inferior, and the Culture promotes chess as a Smart mans Game, Also most have a >misunderstanding about what chess is all about, they think only boring old men >play the game. Not a chance. 'People of pigment' are not frightened by intellectually challenging things at all. I think that (culturally) there just isn't much interest. I think also (perhaps) that there is a cultural interest in chess in Russia and Israel. People like to do what they see others doing and succeeding at. A few highly visible and successful role models can make a big change in cultural attraction to an opportunity. >But if i am not mistaken chess was created actually in Egypt, and >the Greek Historian Herodudus said that "the egyptian were black with wolly >hair", read the life and works of herodutus. India, I believe is one popular theory as Chaturanga. Another is China as Xiangqi. At any rate, it developed in Arabia to a high level where it became called Shatranj. Around the year 900 there was a really great Turkish player named As-Suli. The middle east became a real hot-bed for chess development. Really, until Philodor came along, not much was happening in European chess.
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