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jrzmath99
1.When someone asks you "What is 5x9?" You say that it is 5 queens.
2.You have played over 1000 games on chess.com.
3. You are constanly watching your online games in case somebody moved on them
4. You see a castle and you call it a rook
5. You call horses knights
6. When you are playing a strategy game, you think that you can only move 1 unit at a time
7. You find it easy to come up with signs that you play chess too much
8. You know from experience that knights and bishops are worth exactly the same
ok_i_resign
when you dream about chess....
Can everybody number their signs, please?
sanan22
10. when you start talking about chess after you've had some alcohol
11. you go through your games in your head when you're not playing and try to find better moves
ChristianSoldier007
Actually this statement is false. Some people reguard the bishop as 3.5 and the knight as 3, and in most situations a bishop is slighty preferable, but it always depends on the position.
chessgdt
12.when you forget to go to work/ turn in your homework because you were up all night(KNIGHT!) playing chess.
MrEdCollins
13. You jump at a restaurant when the waiter says, "Check."
14. You bump into someone or something and say J’adoube.
15. You have more chess clocks than watches.
16. You have more PGN than DOC files on your computer.
17. You meet someone and your first question is, “What’s your rating?”
18. You take a chess set and book to the bathroom.
19. You have more chess books than any other book or magazine combined.
20. You go to any Barnes and Noble in the world and know exactly where all the chess books are located.
21. You know that mate, mating positions, exposed bishops, and forking the queen have nothing to do with sex.
msjenned
22. The first thing you do is setup chessboard instead of making the coffee in the morning.
23. You spot the chessboard set up wrong in every movie with a chess scene.
skyler_kelly
24. You stay up until 4 AM playing on chess.com
jetfighter13
25. You are sitting waiting for finals to be over and a Novelty in the KG pops into your head with a plausable mainline.
26. You are playing Guitar and instead of Ab (A flat) you accidentally say e4 (E string 4th fret)
27. You watch a game between two amatures, and get excited when they see the same move you do.
28. you forget that there are two people playing the game and go on to explain to the people watching the winning combination.
29. Your most used game on the computer is chess titans which you use to practice pattern recognition
30. You accidentally eat a Bishop
oh and all of those have happened to me in my post.
31. You download a MP3 file of the Live chess sounds.
Eric904P
32. When you skip school you spend time on chess.com instead of COD
COD (call of duty right [too bad they killed Soap])
33. Your most visited web site is a chess site/server.
nameno1had
34. your wife gets angry because you play so much, but you think she is just jealous you are enjoying yourself so much
35. if you could, you play chess every free moment you had
36. when you think using your free time doing other things while monitoring your moves on Chess.com is really fruitful each day
37. you play every free moment you have and it doesn't feel like its enough
38. you find yourself arguing chess theory with others frequently
39. you find yourself at work thinking about chess and wish you were either playing or on chess.com
40. you pull out your cell phone evertime you go to the john and play a few moves on your saved game
41. you frequently have your engine give you a list of the best moves for each successive variation for an opening to study
xAsnl
42. you completely ignore all of your friends in passing on the way to and from class because you're too busy calculating in your head whether or not your N sac earlier today was sound
43. you know what a N sac is
44. you can't sleep because you know your chess book was shipped in today and you're picking it up tomorrow morning (a local college had both of Euwe's "The Middle Game in Chess" books in algebraic, and they shipped them over to my school's library yesterday for free... and yes I slept quite poorly last night)
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Concerned about trolling, again
by Master_Valek a few minutes ago
5/22/2013 - Good Night to the Enemy
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Is Chess a 'Creative' Activity?
by Dischyzer 6 minutes ago
Chess puzzle- tough
by 205thsq 12 minutes ago
Two Queens
by Ziryab 15 minutes ago
gg
by Raven_Stock 18 minutes ago
Please help decipher and teach a noob
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