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zman1234

When you play 10 games of checkers before each game you play.

zman1234

When you're the best in your class at math, but you can't calculate in chess. :D

beardogjones

You think that because you have the brilliance of a 2800 player you

can get away with playing like a 500 player.

AndyClifton
zman1234 wrote:

When you're the best in your class at math, but you can't calculate in chess. :D

Perhaps these aren't as connected as you seem to think. Wink

gaereagdag

Your opening repertoire is the Grob, Guatemala defence and the woozle. You also think that1.f3 is a move of profound genius and wonder why nobody else is as smart as you are since only you play it.

zman1234
AndyClifton wrote:
zman1234 wrote:

When you're the best in your class at math, but you can't calculate in chess. :D

Perhaps these aren't as connected as you seem to think. 

Aww.. nobody likes puns these days. Well, I have a 2-day tourney coming up tomorrow. Wish me luck!

katnc414

-- You think Caro-Kann is a Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor.

AndyClifton
zman1234 wrote:
Aww.. nobody likes puns these days. 

Hey, do you have any idea who you're talking to?!

Javan64

That was a pun?

AndyClifton

For a math guy it was pretty good (cut him some slack). Smile

e4nf3

Opponent says "j'adoube".

You think it's Polish for checkmate...so you lay down your king.

sanan22

you play the same opening as black and white

1RedKnight99

5. Your opponent gets both of your rooks in another tournament. For free.

 

Uh-oh. I must be a bad player

Javan64
e4nf3 wrote:

Opponent says "j'adoube".

You think it's Polish for checkmate...so you lay down your king.

I dearly love to tell this one to my wife (who's Polish)--she loves Polish jokes, however I just don't have the energy to explain "j'adoube" to her!

KeyeLimePie
e4nf3 wrote:

Opponent says "j'adoube".

You think it's Polish for checkmate...so you lay down your king.

What's it Polish for, anyway?

 

Hang on, never mind... good 'ol Google Translate.

KeyeLimePie

It said it's French for "I Knights". 

 

???

e4nf3

Really just means "adjust" in French:

http://rules.chessdom.com/jadoube-rule

e4nf3

I dearly love to tell this one to my wife (who's Polish)--she loves Polish jokes, however I just don't have the energy to explain "j'adoube" to her!

I grew up in a Polish neighborhood. Oddly, all the jokes were about Italians.

KeyeLimePie
e4nf3 wrote:

Really just means "adjust" in French:

http://rules.chessdom.com/jadoube-rule

What?! Huh, I really need to catch my brain up on this. Haven't had anything to do with chess for a while...

e4nf3

Fair enough. Now, if anyone says it...just lay your king down. Wink