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A racist question?

Is Vishy Anand the only non-white chess champions.
(Let's assume central Asian people like Armenian are white).

Is Vishy Anand the only non-white chess champions. (Let's assume central Asian people like Armenian are white).

Capablanca was Cuban. If you think that is white, you are lumping a lot into one skin color.

Capablanca was Cuban. If you think that is white, you are lumping a lot into one skin color.

@MeWantCookieMobile Aren't Cuban descendants of Spanish people in the new world?

@MeWantCookieMobile Aren't Cuban descendants of Spanish people in the new world?

I ask this becuase I realise that Ding Liren might be the second non-white (and first from far east) to become chess champion.

I ask this becuase I realise that Ding Liren might be the second non-white (and first from far east) to become chess champion.

Women's chess championships have been dominated by China since the nineties, so it's not only a racist (?) but also a sexist (?) question.
(kidding)

Women's chess championships have been dominated by China since the nineties, so it's not only a racist (?) but also a sexist (?) question. (kidding)

We all evolved from the sea or descended from the second created pair of humans, so we're from the same family, it's just that your cousins have a better tan.

We all evolved from the sea or descended from the second created pair of humans, so we're from the same family, it's just that your cousins have a better tan.

Are you sure? That doesn't seem right. Wasn't Kosteniuk a multiple chess champion after the 90's? And Pretty positive there were more. Maybe I'll look for fun.

Are you sure? That doesn't seem right. Wasn't Kosteniuk a multiple chess champion after the 90's? And Pretty positive there were more. Maybe I'll look for fun.

@MeWantCookieMobile Sure there were several others, but for the last 30 years it's like 22-23 years of China.

@MeWantCookieMobile Sure there were several others, but for the last 30 years it's like 22-23 years of China.

I guess.. I guess also I never really thought about it either.

I guess.. I guess also I never really thought about it either.

Classifying Anand as non-white, but Kasimdzhanov as white seems pretty arbitrary to me.

Classifying Anand as non-white, but Kasimdzhanov as white seems pretty arbitrary to me.

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