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Chess by Gaslight

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 Chess played by black people and creative chess content by black is invisible as the world is being gaslit by the chess community at large. Nobody cares that a black person's IQ is just as likely to be genius-level than a White, Indian, Asian or indeed any race. We just get given a narrative as black people that we are inferior. Well, I am a black person and I'm not inferior in Chess or any other human endeavor. I recently was like everyone else invited to talk to the esteemed co-founder of Lichess, Thibault Duplessis in his "Ask me Anything" session. Well, I asked him why my chess creative product, a chess puzzle game now called Puzzle Rush was named Puzzle Storm on his server without any credit to me the original owner. He unsurprising had nothing to say to that question that shed any light on why black people's creative efforts are taken without a word. As if that wasn't enough a person commenting on my question to Thibault Duplessis said I was "delus...

White Complexes: How Only White People Are Allowed To Tell The Story of Chess and Be Heard and Credited

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 My name is Michael.  I did the following things in Chess:  I co-founded the world's biggest grassroots chess community which is solely based on social networking and not a playing server. I organized the 2013 World Chess Championship venue tour of Chennai for Magnus Carlsen that enabled Magnus to sign the agreement with FIDE for the 2013 WCC final in Chennai. I invented a chess app you all know as puzzle rush. I popularised a format of chess social media in which news is posted as and when it happens. I created a new rating system (Chess Futures) based on a cryptocurrency for chess called ChessCash. You might wonder why I am not famous and have a huge job with Chess24, Chess.com ChessBase, Chessable or PlayMagnus. You might be curious to understand why neither Chess Club Live or any of my chess products and services are written about on chess websites, talked about on chess podcasts and chess Youtube, or even written about on Wikipedia. The reason is simple I'm black and...