Is it true that president Bush can play chess to around international master level ( 2300-2500 ELO ).

I doubt it. You must mean "chutes and Ladders". 

i thought we were not going to talk politics and religion on these forums? of course to some, their politics is a religion: and to others,their religion is political. and by the way it's chutes and ladders, not shoots and ladders(sounds like an internet first person shooter game). and bush playing at master level chess? you must be thinking of dick cheney!

Oops... did somebody mention the Commander in Chief?? Here we go....

 

Let's try and keep it chess-related at least...

doctor ice. I'm not talking about politics or religion. Bush just happens to be a politican, thats all. i'm not talking about his political views. Wake up.

I'd be greatly surprised if he does, I'd be surpried if he's only more or less good. I checked on the internet and found nothing besides analogies and a fake joke chess game by chessbase. And besides being a politician taks an enormous amount of time so I doubt if any modern politician really could manag to play master level chess.

I was just wondering thats all. Someone told me this today, though they had just drank four cans of industial strength cans of Carlsbourg special brew. They then passed out in their own urine before i could gather more crucial information out of them. :)

jona004 wrote: I was just wondering thats all. Someone told me this today, though they had just drank four cans of industial strength cans of Carlsbourg special brew. They then passed out in their own urine before i could gather more crucial information out of them. :)

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Just an average night in Shropshire then... ;-)

e-check wrote: jona004 wrote: I was just wondering thats all. Someone told me this today, though they had just drank four cans of industial strength cans of Carlsbourg special brew. They then passed out in their own urine before i could gather more crucial information out of them. :)

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Just an average night in Shropshire then... ;-)

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I was in Chester at the time, must of been the lure of them lovely Hollyoaks girls!

Etienne wrote: I'd be greatly surprised if he does, I'd be surpried if he's only more or less good. I checked on the internet and found nothing besides analogies and a fake joke chess game by chessbase. And besides being a politician taks an enormous amount of time so I doubt if any modern politician really could manag to play master level chess.

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How about Gary Kasparov?

jona004 wrote:

Is it true that president Bush can play chess to around international master level ( 2300-2500 ELO ).

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I doubt bush junior could play around that level, maybe high 1700s or 1800s

I'd be surprised if Bush even knows the rules of the game. <insert satirical political joke here>

 

However, there is a player scheduled to play at the Miami Chess Open named Alberto Gonzalez. Do you think it's really the Attourney General, or just a coincidence of someone with the same name?

 

--Fromper 

AlecKeen wrote: Etienne wrote: I'd be greatly surprised if he does, I'd be surpried if he's only more or less good. I checked on the internet and found nothing besides analogies and a fake joke chess game by chessbase. And besides being a politician taks an enormous amount of time so I doubt if any modern politician really could manag to play master level chess.

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How about Gary Kasparov?

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Well he doesn't play chess anymore since he's in politics. And considering the age he went in politics. Anyway, you know what I mean, what's the use of splitting hairs?

Bush is the only chess player in history to rate in the negative numbers (-1700), Oops, no politics, I forgot.

He's also the only one to have won a match for the american title with an inferior number of points than his opponent. Oops, I forgot too...

The Bush Attack

1.e4 e5  2.Qh5  Nc6  3.Bc4 ...claim victory.

1-0

 

I doubt very much Bush was ever a member of a chess club. Folks are very tight lipped about the way he spent his evenings in his younger days, and I don't think it was because we was weak against the Ruy Lopez.

Also, if he were a superior chess player, his political supporters would certainly point that out when his detractors impugn his intelligence.

"it's chutes and ladders, not shoots and ladders"

 That's right. "Shoots and ladders" is the Vice President's game.

 

I think discussing political figures treads dangerously close to discussing politics. A discussion like this can be rather inflammatory, as evidenced by some of the statements already made.

 

Guys, why do we have to talk politics at all? Does it matter if the person you're playing against is a Democrat, a Republican, Independent, Libertarian? Let's keep this stuff out of here - and especially out of the on-topic forums.

The only presidents that I know of that have played chess are John Quincy Adams, Jimmy Carter, Grover Cleveland, James Garfield, US Grant, Warren Harding, Rutherford Hayes, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, James Monroe, Richard Nixon, Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington, and Woodrow Wilson.

If Bush did play chess, he might play the Bush Surge Attack.  That is 1.e4, then 2.d4, followed by c4, b4, a4, f4, g4, and h4. 

tony23 wrote:

I think discussing political figures treads dangerously close to discussing politics. A discussion like this can be rather inflammatory, as evidenced by some of the statements already made.

 

Guys, why do we have to talk politics at all? Does it matter if the person you're playing against is a Democrat, a Republican, Independent, Libertarian? Let's keep this stuff out of here - and especially out of the on-topic forums.

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If you don't like talking about politics then don't talk about them. And religion. I thought the USA was a free speech democracy. There's plenty of other topics on here to interest you. Just don't go around dictating to people what they can and can't say, that's censorship. I don't like golf, cricket, rugby, boy bands, etc... but i don't go around suggesting to people that i don't want them talking about them.