Question: are pirates better than regular people at chess?  I think their cutthroat nature may allow them to attack with much greater abandon, but they probably miss mating threats when they have an opportunity to grab booty on the other side of the board.  What do you think?

Their board vision is only half as good.

I think that they cheat. The parrot feeds them moves and has MCO memorized.  

In blitz they have an advantage as the language of the same hand move clock rule leaves a loophole for hooks lol.

They bury their treasure on pawn islands.

I imagine that there are fewer "regular people" than there are "pirates", so pirates are better now. But in the future...skip it, there is no future.

I thought this thread was about pilates and chess.

thats funny i thought it was all about rum and wenches, but what do i know

be all about rum an chess, wenches, chests and wenches chests. and as for parrots, as for parrots, ooh arrg as for parrots... stuff em, says i. aye, says i

Blackbeard was a great chess player, just ask Batgirl.

Ninjas...ninjas... rule chess

Pirates are known to prefer Xiangqi, as they get to use cannons.

Y'all don't even want to know what Bluebeard had hidden in that room.

The only chess player that ever peeked was Alekhine.

In my professional pirate chess player evaluator's opinion (I have a degree), I suspect that the winner would often be characterized by being less inebriated than his counterpart. Much "rum" intended, to those who like to drink. If this wasn't the case then it probably had to do with more subtle things like, whether one thought his opponent and audience would notice his magic bishop that was able to mysteriously change colors during the end game( it is really cool what you can learn from watching pirates play chess).

The Pirates just haven't been the same, since they left Three Rivers Stadium.

There's no pirates allowed in Irish waters and the only ones with horses is us, those wallies are all thick at chess.

Pirates have the edge because if you beat them they make you walk the plank

All gold :-)

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