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Songs About Chess


  • 2 years ago · Quote · #21

    InsertSobriquetHere

    The Arcade Fire song, "Deep Blue," mentions the 1996 match in which IBM's Deep Blue was defeated by Kasparov. Also, it's an awesome song.

  • 22 months ago · Quote · #22

    lemming101

    Are we forgetting "Like a g6" by Far east movement

    That song is always in my head as black begins to fianchetto :P

  • 22 months ago · Quote · #23

    Conquistador

    Bob Segar taught me how the knight moves.

  • 22 months ago · Quote · #24

    hukes

    But Suzanne Vega actually has a song named Kinght Moves.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqIclJjrCgU

    Watch while the queen
    In one false move
    Turns herself into a pawn

  • 18 months ago · Quote · #25

    dnleary

    Unfolding Vostoks - Bobby Fischer Trees

    http://soundcloud.com/unfolding-vostoks/unfolding-vostoks-bobby

  • 18 months ago · Quote · #26

    jetfighter13

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  • 18 months ago · Quote · #27

    kyska00

    Queen on their second album Queen II had many chess references. 

  • 15 months ago · Quote · #28

    SamD87

    Conquistador wrote:

    Bob Segar taught me how the knight moves.


    I just wrote lyrics for Bob Seger's "Knight Moves"

    I was a little bit behind
    Could’ve used a few pawns
    Staring at the black army, attack coming on
    She was a boxwood beauty with a hand carved mane
    A bridle on her head sitting way up high
    Way up firm and high

    Out past the mid ranks, where his pieces were collected 
    Stood my lone bishop, unprotected
    Picked up my piece, the one with hooves
    And I made a knight move
    Tried to offer a trade he could not refuse
    When I made that knight move
    To a square, sublime
    My position was looking prime

    He wasn’t in check, oh no far from it
    Yet I knew his king would soon take a plummet
    We jockeyed for position all over the board
    Captures being scored
    And we’d steal a pawn every chance we could
    To the back rank, where we tried to push our wood
    I used forks, he used pins
    Neither would yield
    While our kings still had shields 

    Then I made a knight move
    Tryin' to catch his queen in the middle of a snooze
    Such a subtle knight move
    Twas a sweet sacrifice
    I knew he’d plunder
    I laid the trap
    And waited for his blunder
    Waited for his blunder

    I looked at the board to find a forced mate
    How many moves? No more than eight
    Started pushing my rook toward the square G2
    Ain’t it funny how the knight moves
    When you just don’t seem to have as much to lose
    Strange how the knight moves
    With checkmate closing in

  • 15 months ago · Quote · #29

    Ladya79

    I write my own chess songs. :)

  • 15 months ago · Quote · #30

    Anchovey

    @ SamD87:

    Awesome. 

  • 15 months ago · Quote · #31

    Billium248

    Where's the "like" button?  That was awesome!!!  Cool

  • 9 months ago · Quote · #32

    kmason2014

    put your back into it by ice cube... talks about gettin check mate

  • 9 months ago · Quote · #33

    ITISMYMOVE

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  • 4 months ago · Quote · #34

    imperialplayer

    Annihilator - Knight jumps the Queen

    This is really about chess! Chess song all the way!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDIdvfzMHGM

  • 4 months ago · Quote · #35

    Bartleby73

    This song also uses chess as a metaphor for deadly deeds of world powers:

  • 4 months ago · Quote · #36

    Alext190

    The Wu Tang clan has made songs about chess.

  • 4 months ago · Quote · #37

    Bartleby73

    and Dimmu Borgir...

  • 4 months ago · Quote · #38

    winerkleiner

    How about The Pawn Shop Boys?

    They sang about how The King lost his castle and now it's back to square one. 

  • 4 months ago · Quote · #39

    CoyoteLoco

    FIDE has an anthem that is played (or sung) at the openeing cerimonies of FIDE tournaments.
    go to  http://beemp3.com/index.php?q=fide+anthem&st=album 
    and click on "song"
    or go to 
    http://www.mp3chief.com/music/fide-world-chess-federation-anthem/
    and listen to the music 

  • 4 months ago · Quote · #40

    Bartleby73

    why not show the Wu Tang Clan?


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