If Trump Played Chess

The Donald:  Other players love me, they love me.  Little Marco can't play chess, he can't reach the board.  Lyin' Ted's father was there when Fischer met Castro.  I like pieces that haven't been captured, alright.  I play with a hugh bishop, really huuuugh.  Naturally, I like beating my opponents, but I really enjoy beating my bishop.  Give me a break.

Hillary: I always play the Stonewall on my chess server at home even though I get my pieces killed ... ummm, captured.  I give lessons at $225,000 a pop that go to my chess foundation, but they get pre-arranged wins in return.  Everybody wins!  I'm blitzing my way to power (and between you and me (in hushed tones), that's what counts, right?)

Bernie: Winning should be for everyone, not just a handful of masters and grandmasters.  The top one percent of all the players win 90 percent of all the games in this country.   We need free sets, free boards and free wins for everyone.

A crackpot stew of candidates.

This guys making discussions about Politics when they are the orangutans. You were the ones that gave attention to Trump, entering  his game.

In the February issue of Chess Life 1968 (which incidentally sold at 65¢ at the time) we find an attempt by the Republican front-runner Donald Trump, just 22 years old at the time, to establish himself as a chess problem composer:

Donald Trump, Chess Life 1968

White to play and mate in four moves

The solution given by Trump is: 1.Qxd7 h5 2.c8=N+! Ka6 3. b4 h4 4.Qc6#. Very nice, except that in the March isssue of Chess Life a reader pointed out that the problem had a dual: 2.c8=Q+ Kb6 3.Qdb7+ Ka5 4.Qca8#, making the main point – underpromotion to a knight – unnecessary. Trump threatened to sue the reader and the magazine, but then the reader published a second letter (in the April edition of CL) showing that 2.c8=B+ Kb6 3.b4 h4 4.Qb7# and 2.c8=R+ Ka6 3.Rb8 h4 4.Qa4# also work. "This makes the problem a classic allumwandlung," [which is a chess problem where, at some stage in the solution a pawn is promoted variously to a queen, rook, bishop, and knight] "so we must praise the composition as a valuable contribution to the art," he wrote. After this Trump said he "accepted the apology" and withdrew his lawsuit. We have not found any further compositions by the real estate tycoon.

#alltrumpdoesisthreatentosuepeople

and too be very Un-trumplike.

I apologize. apparently the guy does know a little chess.

interesting article. thankx.

If he played on line he would definately use an engine and cheat...

"I have a great relationship with the black pieces."

In the February issue of Chess Life 1968 (which incidentally sold at 65¢ at the time) we find an attempt by the Republican front-runner Donald Trump, just 22 years old at the time, to establish himself as a chess problem composer:

Donald Trump, Chess Life 1968

White to play and mate in four moves

The solution given by Trump is: 1.Qxd7 h5 2.c8=N+! Ka6 3. b4 h4 4.Qc6#. Very nice, except that in the March isssue of Chess Life a reader pointed out that the problem had a dual: 2.c8=Q+ Kb6 3.Qdb7+ Ka5 4.Qca8#, making the main point – underpromotion to a knight – unnecessary. Trump threatened to sue the reader and the magazine, but then the reader published a second letter (in the April edition of CL) showing that 2.c8=B+ Kb6 3.b4 h4 4.Qb7# and 2.c8=R+ Ka6 3.Rb8 h4 4.Qa4# also work. "This makes the problem a classic allumwandlung," [which is a chess problem where, at some stage in the solution a pawn is promoted variously to a queen, rook, bishop, and knight] "so we must praise the composition as a valuable contribution to the art," he wrote. After this Trump said he "accepted the apology" and withdrew his lawsuit. We have not found any further compositions by the real estate tycoon.

#alltrumpdoesisthreatentosuepeople

and too be very Un-trumplike.

I apologize. apparently the guy does know a little chess.

interesting article. thankx.