Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 15:35:16 07/08/04
[Readers, please add your opinions if you think that my English is wrong!] If we want to express that we _all_ belong together, beyond all races, nationalities then we must take the most genral or abstract term which defines our human similarity. And the most common is that we all belong to the human race. Without exceptions. And chess always claimed to be a sport for everyone, for the whole human race. Ok, a long time in chess we excluded a whole part of us, namely the female part of the human race. Just to explain why we must refer to the term of humanity or mankind or the whole human race, I can prove that if we take the term family or a people for instance then we always make a claim for a particular group or sample of the whole human race. But this way we would exclude many human beings. That would contradict that we want to "unite" all human beings. That is what FIDE means with GENS UNA SUMUS - without exceptions and exclusions.
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