My personal favourite is:
Interviewer: Do you prefer sex or chess?
Boris Spassky: It depends on the position.
My personal favourite is:
Interviewer: Do you prefer sex or chess?
Boris Spassky: It depends on the position.
A chess master died - after a few days, a friend of his heard a voice; it was him!
"What's it like, where you are now," he asked.
"What do you want to hear first, the good news or the bad news."
"Tell me the good news first."
"Well, it's really heaven here. There are tournaments and blitz sessions going on all the time and Morphy, Alekhine, Lasker, Tal, Capablanca, Botvinnik, they're all here, and you can play them."
"Fantastic!" the friend said, "and what is the bad news?"
"You have Black against Capablanca on Saturday."
A chess master died - after a few days, a friend of his heard a voice; it was him!
"What's it like, where you are now," he asked.
"What do you want to hear first, the good news or the bad news."
"Tell me the good news first."
"Well, it's really heaven here. There are tournaments and blitz sessions going on all the time and Morphy, Alekhine, Lasker, Tal, Capablanca, Botvinnik, they're all here, and you can play them."
"Fantastic!" the friend said, "and what is the bad news?"
"You have Black against Capablanca on Saturday."
Hahaha, good one
In 1972 a group of Soviet gulag prisoners listened to the first five games of the Fischer-Spassky world championship match on a smuggled radio. At that point the match was tied at 2.5 points each, and just before game 6 the prison guards discovered the radio, confiscating it before the hapless prisoners could learn the outcome of the match.
Some two weeks later, a new prisoner arrived in the camp. Eagerly crowding around the newcomer, the prisoners pressed him for the final results of the match, whereupon he sadly replied, “I lost.”
From: Kurtgodden's blogpost: Chess Jokes: Practical and otherwise
A group of prisoners in a gulag are trying to follow the Spassky-Fischer match. This is almost impossible because they have no access to TV or radio, so are relying on any soundbites they can pick up on.
One day, a new prisoner arrives at the camp, battered and bruised, but looking strangely familiar to everyone. Immediately they jump on him and ask "Quick, what was the score?"
He replies, "I lost."
EDIT: Haha whoops sorry, looks like we both posted that at the same time!
A group of prisoners in a gulag are trying to follow the Spassky-Fischer match. This is almost impossible because they have no access to TV or radio, so are relying on any soundbites they can pick up on.
One day, a new prisoner arrives at the camp, battered and bruised, but looking strangely familiar to everyone. Immediately they jump on him and ask "Quick, what was the score?"
He replies, "I lost."
EDIT: Haha whoops sorry, looks like we both posted that at the same time!
lol, how appropriate for such a thread.
A repost from another article: Capablanca vs the Martian. I always thought that whoever comes up with this story is very creative.
http://blog.chess.com/ArielIgnacioDomingue/the-legend-of-capablanca-and-the-martian
Hey guys lets post some chess jokes!!!
Here is one of my favorites:
Savielly Tartakover: It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men.
Share yours!!
Allons-y!