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1000 Signs you play chess too LITTLE!

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costag

382. You forget to bring a chess clock to the tournament.

costag

383. You play 1. h3 as white.

costag

384. You lose on time on the first move.

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JMB2010

385.When someone mentions the word Sicilian the first thing you think of is a pizza.

PLAVIN81

Each time that i am in a game=I ask to be excusedFrown

himanshukaushik

386. You never played Chess 960.
387. You dont know the other name of Chess 960.
388. You chat too much during your online games. 

chessgm8
kalecgos91 wrote:
splitleaf wrote:

373. At some point in a game you look up and realize you now have two light square bishops!

 

More like 389. You don't know that very rarely two light square bishops can be possible, and even beneficial :P
 



390. You have absolutely NO idea what he's talking about

chessgm8
kalecgos91 wrote:

@chessgm8 I know what he was talking about. I didn't mean to offend, just wanted to spice the topic up a little since much stuff gets repeated over and over and it was getting a bit boring. 

I meant that a sign "you play chess too little" is that you have no idea what "that very rarely two light square bishops can be possible, and even beneficial" means. ;)

AlxMaster

391. You think "the backyard professor" is a good player and watch his classes.

macer75

391. You forget your password to your chess.com account.

PedoneMedio

392. You think: "Pawns? Who cares about Pawns?"

i.e. you forgot Pawns can promote!

(This really happened to me when I played for the first time as an adult, after I had learned to play and played only two games as a kid. In these two "first playing sessions" of mine, as a kid I lost both my games in less than 15 moves, and as an adult I won the first game and lost the following four.)

benlukechapman

393. You forget that there is a castling rule. 

nochewycandy

395. you think this is

the fourknights opening!

benlukechapman

396.You put your rooks where your king and queen should go!

Pat_Zerr

397:  You think that ELO is a 70's rock band.

JustanothaDude

398. You only move pieces with your dominant hand. 

Pat_Zerr

399.  You think the "touch move" rule means that you can take your move back as long as you're still touching the piece.

FireAndLightz

400. You think youre king can go run away on youre knight and its a draw.

elo123
xitvono wrote:

you play the Richter Veresov when you really meant to play the Ruy Lopez

I see that way too often in games at my rating level.