They refer to curling as "chess on ice" for some reason
CAN CHESS BE COMPARED WITH CRICKET? ANY SIMILIARITIES IN UR OPINION?
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Chess and tennis both have long cultural history, that is also similarity between them.
The big difference between team games like cricket, and chess which is one-on-one, is that your success or failure is also dependent on the performances of your teammates. In chess, it's all down to you.
Nov 8, 2015
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Why do baseballers use a glove to catch/field their ball, when 10 out of 11 fielders in cricket don't have one, and we use a much harder ball? Those Yanks really are softies!
Nov 9, 2015
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For anyone who's interested, the following should clear up any confusion with regards to understanding cricket:
"You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.
When both sides have been in and all the men been have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game"
Nov 9, 2015
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IpswichMatt написал:
For anyone who's interested, the following should clear up any confusion with regards to understanding cricket:
"You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.
When both sides have been in and all the men been have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game"
I never expected to see this in a chess forum. My life is now complete.
Nov 9, 2015
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#29
Protecting one's hands from a hard-hit ball is intelligence or common sense, perhaps.
That comment is completely OUT of line. It doesn't belong IN this thread. The thread is IN,the poster should be OUT of this forum. Alright, he's OUT, but keep the forum IN the site. Well which one is it, IN or OUT?
If the site is OUT, then why is it called the INternet? You can't be serious! 
NuancedConfers wrote:
They refer to curling as "chess on ice" for some reason
funny you should mention that...
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/off-topic/chess-on-ice
Nov 9, 2015
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#32
baoguma написал:
1) Both games have players
2) Both games start with the letter c
3) Both games have the letter e
4) Both games are played with hands
5) Both games are............
I can go on like this forever
Both games can go on forever? It sure seems like it sometimes.
if a werewolf has not occupied said rabbit hole, everything should be fine.
Nov 10, 2015
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#34
There'd surely be a few rabbit holes at Citi Field - my bathtub is bigger than that ground !
Nov 10, 2015
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#35
DavidIreland3141 wrote:
My favorite social ploy when meeting a guy from the UK in a bar in the US, just to have some conversation, is to get him to explain the rules of cricket :)
So: what if the ball is hit and falls down a rabbit hole?
Googled it: "Lost ball. If a ball in play is lost or cannot be recovered, the fielding side can call "lost ball". The batting side keeps any penalty runs (such as no-balls and wides) and scores the higher of six runs and the number of runs actually run."
Guess this could happen in baseball too. I've never heard of it actually happening. There must have been cases when a dog picked up the ball and ran with it though, dropping it before crossing the boundary.
I think the closest physical sports to chess are boxing and American football...