From outside the pool...
Mind if I practice my cannon balls?
Check it out, here come's my fish.
(Is this universal, or is just New York chess hustlers that call a client a fish?)
The first traces of checker-board-based life date to the early Proterozoic era and were entirely ocean-dwelling. These piece-organisms were the evolutionary precursor to early chess, which was amphibious and later replaced by the modern land-dwelling species of chess we are familiar with today.
White player with the blue hat: If you take my rook it's my turn to get my underwear of ..
Black player: So, go on baby !!
It would be a whale of a match if I could stop floundering. This guy must be a shark from the indoor hot tub.