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kodeeak

49. try to stack up your pawns purposely because you think it's a good strategy

ClavierCavalier

Hey, a crown made of clay doesn't indicate lack of chess knowledge.  It just shows an imaginative, crafty person who wants to customize their pieces.  If they put it on the queen when she promotes after reaching the other side, then there might be an issue.

"Checkers" starting position!  If Unfortunately, if you have all of the pawns, nothing could move (assuming checker rules).

surreal86

23. You play mostly blitz and expect to be a well rounded player...

dawgface420
chessgm8 wrote:


46. You setup the chess pieces the way you would checkers pieces

 

True story---I played someone who did this. I stared at the board and asked him what the *&^% he was doing and he said that he won a lot of games with this particular setup.

kodeeak

51. You think the queen can jump over pieces

Anonymous_U

52.You think Bobby Fischer is spelled, "Bobby Fisher".

kodeeak
Anonymous_U wrote:

52.You think Bobby Fishcher is spelled, "Bobby Fisher".

you misspelled Bobby Fischer embarrasing

Grandmaster3141
surreal86 wrote:

23. You play mostly blitz and expect to be a well rounded player...

That was number 50.

53. When you insist moving your king into check.

54. When your opponent does a discovered check and you say, "That piece isn't checking the king!"

DONKEY_KONGxxx

Your blitz rating is 1222 and you think you can post something in this thread.

kodeeak
Choppin_Wood wrote:

Your blitz rating is 1222 and you think you can post something in this thread.

are you making fun of yourself?

kodeeak

lol

capnahags

You're proud of yourself when you learn how to perform "The Queen's Tour"

kodeeak

57. You think 0 moves ahead 100% of the time

Grandmaster3141

58. When you're playing Black and you set up the pieces right; except that you swapped the king and the queen.

ClavierCavalier

56:  You castle to get out of check.

57:  You insist that a pinned piece can't give check or help in checkmates.

Grandmaster3141

61. When you fail to correctly use the 50 move rule. Clavier looks like he doesn't know enough about chess.

62. When you try to castle you touch your rook first.

64 (Apparently someone beat me to it). You're unrated.

Akatsuki64

66. When your opponent moves their pawn two spaces foward when it has not moved yet, and you say, "you can't do that (that actually happened)."

Grandmaster3141

65. When you try to pawn capture straight.

Akatsuki64

67. When someone says to you that they are better than you at chess, when they have no experience whatsoever.

Akatsuki64

68. You don't know who Gary Kasparov is.