My house (Rook)
My Preacher (Bishop )
My Warrior (Knight)
My ball and chain (Queen)
Myself as king of course
and our many house servants (pawns)
If You Could, What Would You Name Your Chess Pieces?
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Magician from Riga = Tal?
Canberfoil:
Don't stop me noooow!! I'm having such a good time: I'm having a baaaaalll!! I don't wanna stop at allllllll......
That what u were thinking???
Indeed. Another Queen song: March of the Black Queen. Make of that what you will. However, it was not a chess reference in any way :O
8 ohs 2ahs 2ouchs 2eeps 1eh 1he
brumtown wrote:
Charles, I think they are named after the English hierarchy, Apart from the rooks and the pawns: I don't know where the hell they came from. Yours would make more sense, but I think the pawns should be called 'schildkröte' because they move so slowly.
I'm too lazy to look it up on Wiki, but isn't 'ruk' the old Persian word for 'chariot'? And 'pawns' are probably called that way because they're just that ... small, insignificant pawns in the politics of the two big, mean dudes on the e-file. But anyhow, I might be mistaken.
camberfoil wrote:
Magician from Riga = Tal?
MWAA HAA HAA I IS HACKING YO WORDS!!!
Dec 22, 2014
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#50
Pawn: Bacon Jr.
Bishops: Bacon the CXXXVVIII
Knight: Baconius
Rook: Stale Bacon
Queen: Pork
King: Bacon
Dec 22, 2014
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#51
Pawn: Corpse
Bishop: Buttcrack-head
Knight: Pony
Rook: Big Pony
Queen: Grandmother
King: Grandfather
Is Joey the King's feeble-minded cousin?
Dec 22, 2014
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#53
charles_butternucker wrote:
Other than that, I couldn't laugh at anything else in that article.
Lol. I also found it funny how much effort it would take to annotate, for example, Nf3.
"1750: K. knight to His Bishop's 3d."
Dec 22, 2014
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#54
cornbeefhashvili wrote:
They would all be my minions.
I can see why... lol!
dragonair234 wrote:
charles_butternucker wrote:
Other than that, I couldn't laugh at anything else in that article.
Lol. I also found it funny how much effort it would take to annotate, for example, Nf3.
"1750: K. knight to His Bishop's 3d."
I am reading a book by Capablanca in which he writes like that. My eyes hurt after reading it....
Dec 24, 2014
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#56
camberfoil wrote:
dragonair234 wrote:
charles_butternucker wrote:
Other than that, I couldn't laugh at anything else in that article.
Lol. I also found it funny how much effort it would take to annotate, for example, Nf3.
"1750: K. knight to His Bishop's 3d."
I am reading a book by Capablanca in which he writes like that. My eyes hurt after reading it....
Your eyes may hurt but I am VERY impressed you're reading that material! *applause* :')
One could call the Queen any of the four following names: Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon. Anybody? I know you're out there!