Caption contest 5!

Here is this weeks pic !

as usual, top 3 captions win a trophy :-)

Correspondence chess is so SLOW when you're playing someone 40 light-years away!

Given that the man is weightless, how are the pieces sticking to the board? If it's magnetic, then that must surely mess up the equipment on the craft?

Physics fail...

the trouble some people go to, just to lose weight!

Chess is out of this world.  This isn't shuffle chess invented by Fischer.  This is shuttle chess invented by NASA.

maybe its velcro ?

Not necessarily.  A weak magnet would be sufficient to keep the pieces on.  Such a magnetic field would be insignificant beyond the board, itself.  Also, it need not even be magnetic.  There could be velcro or something else to help hold it in place.

Could be velcro. Why does everything have to be so sci-fi? 

Hah, 3 suggestions of velcro in the same minute!

"wait i did not blunder my queen just flew off the board"

"Gary always preferred an unconventional position in chess."

NASA's official chess set - Staunton chess pieces that are unweighted and unfelted.

Houston we have a problem. We lost to the russian space station at chess.

AGAIN

Jim Carey in space probe

NASA scientist makes little headway in the "No. of chess positions vs. No. of atoms in the universe" experiment.

"Lightyears ahead of his time."

?

That's all I got.

As a boy, he never could sit still while playing

I've either lost the game or my job as an astranaught

Chess 1 - 0 Player

"When Simon's friends told him they were going to an annual Space Chess convention, he was really excited. Six weeks later, he was drinking water from a tube and floating around in his own faeces..."

"I love the Wing Gambit."