5,000 Signs You Don't Know Enough About Chess

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3030 Whadddt? Chess? Didn't you mean cheese? Cheese is surely E zee er. 

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3031 -  The King, Queen, Bishop and Knight are on the board. Where is the Joker?

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3032. You know how to move the pieces, and think that qualifies for knowing how to actually play chess. 

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3033. Flipping a coin to see if white or black moves first.

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3034. Chess? Is that a new makeup brand? Ohhdarling. Does it go with my Jimmy Choos? And my doggie woggie? And my Luis Vitton handbag? 

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3035. Chess? Oh no, that is too difficult for me. Can't we do something nice?

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3036. The queen has the capability to make a knight move, right?

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3037. Castling is when you advance a pawn to the eighth rank to get crowned.

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3038. you think castling is the same as car selling.

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3039. You think that a castling is some kind of halfling.

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3040 - Your grandmother wins or draws four out of five games against your play.

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3041 - Your seven year old neice hesitates to play you OTB because she fears boredom.

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3042: You think that the chess clock is a launcher.
3043: You purposely lose on time so that you don't have to show how bad you are. 

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3044: You move your your pieces to I file when you're frustrated.

3045: You resign before you play your first move because you know need to go to the bathroom.

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3046: You expect you opponent to resign.

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3047: you take the queen.

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#3048 when you play a move that you think is good then your oppent belittles you with his responce.

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ENcyndaquil-pikachu wrote:

#3048 when you play a move that you think is good then your oppent belittles you with his responce.

That's happened to me at tournaments...

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3049. To buy replacement chess pieces, you go to a pawn shop.

3050. You don't believe there are enough stupid things possible in chess to fill 5,000 posts.

3051. You play a whole game with a1 as a white square without even realizing it.

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3052. You lost a game playing black with a smothered mate. Your king on h8, her knight on f7. You ask for a replay. You play white. She mates you the same way, now with your king on h1 and her knight at f2.