Signs you're a bad chess player - Chess Forums - Page 27

Kolob68

Oct 25, 2011

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#521

You play a game of loser's chess with someone and your picture pops up on the screen.

frrixz

Oct 25, 2011

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#522

jp_23 wrote:

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You think that a king vs. king endgame can be won.

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If your pieces "eat" your opponents pieces rather than capture them.

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If you call your pawns princesses.

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If you dub your king "Super King" with the power to jump over the tallest pieces and move farther than the most ideally placed queen.

If, when you get checkmated, you create a distraction and place your king somewhere else where it can be captured.

I played someone who actually thought the game was winnable when it got down to KBvKN

In some languages, they always use "eat" to mean capture (same word or something?)

I called a pawn a princess, but it was in a puzzle called "Save the Princess," where promotion was the objective.

Obviously "castling" means putting your king in a toy castle off the chessboard where he's safe from checkmate.

Nytik

Oct 25, 2011

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#523

When you're stuck for a move you just make your queen capture the nearest piece, while yelling "LEEEEEROY JENKINS!"

MyCowsCanFly

Oct 25, 2011

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#524

Someone named Kallikak keeps beating you.

jp_23

Oct 25, 2011

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#525

Musikamole wrote:

8.Rxg7+ and 11.Ng5 come to mind. Unsound sacrifices?

On your 13th move you should have taken the f pawn with your queen, leading to the forced mate 13... Qxf2+ 14 Kd1 Qxf1+ 15 Kd1 Be3#

jp_23

Oct 25, 2011

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#526

frrixz wrote:

jp_23 wrote:

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You think that a king vs. king endgame can be won.

...

If your pieces "eat" your opponents pieces rather than capture them.

...

If you call your pawns princesses.

...

If you dub your king "Super King" with the power to jump over the tallest pieces and move farther than the most ideally placed queen.

If, when you get checkmated, you create a distraction and place your king somewhere else where it can be captured.

I played someone who actually thought the game was winnable when it got down to KBvKN

In some languages, they always use "eat" to mean capture (same word or something?)

I called a pawn a princess, but it was in a puzzle called "Save the Princess," where promotion was the objective.

Obviously "castling" means putting your king in a toy castle off the chessboard where he's safe from checkmate.

K and B vs K and N is winnable, but takes a bad opponent and a lot more than 50 moves.

Frankdawg

Oct 25, 2011

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#527

You think a Grand Master is a Grandma who is a Hipster.

NM dpnorman

Oct 25, 2011

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#528

nyLsel wrote: Why? Is your father don't know chess? No but he doesnt take it seriously and thus loses almost all his games.

NM dpnorman

Oct 25, 2011

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#529

Ha! King sacrifice!

azziralc

Oct 25, 2011

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#530

Okay. :)

frrixz

Oct 25, 2011

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#531

jp_23 wrote:

frrixz wrote:

jp_23 wrote:

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You think that a king vs. king endgame can be won.

...

If your pieces "eat" your opponents pieces rather than capture them.

...

If you call your pawns princesses.

...

If you dub your king "Super King" with the power to jump over the tallest pieces and move farther than the most ideally placed queen.

If, when you get checkmated, you create a distraction and place your king somewhere else where it can be captured.

I played someone who actually thought the game was winnable when it got down to KBvKN

In some languages, they always use "eat" to mean capture (same word or something?)

I called a pawn a princess, but it was in a puzzle called "Save the Princess," where promotion was the objective.

Obviously "castling" means putting your king in a toy castle off the chessboard where he's safe from checkmate.

K and B vs K and N is winnable, but takes a bad opponent and a lot more than 50 moves.

Yeah, of course this is why the game wasn't an automatic draw, and I had to wait for an opportune time to actually force the draw.

Kolob68

Oct 25, 2011

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#532

You put on a blue shirt and call yourself Mr Spock and think that will improve your chess.

jtt96

Oct 26, 2011

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#533

+1!!! Star Trek's great!!!

blake78613

Oct 26, 2011

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#534

jtt96 wrote:

+1!!! Star Trek's great!!!

Its comforting to know that in the future we will go back to descriptive notation, as in "Knight to Queen's level three".

MyCowsCanFly

Oct 26, 2011

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#535

Signs you are a bad chess player:

Your knights have a suprised look on their faces.

blake78613

Oct 26, 2011

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#536

Knights get up on the chess board and tell you where to go.

Ben_Dubuque

Oct 26, 2011

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#537

You find your king sleeping with the opposing queen behind the chess clock

Your knights went to the slaughter house rather than be killed by peasents

Your Bishops became Luthrain

Your Queen is actualy Freddie Mercury

Your Rooks are birds

Your pawns decapitate your king due to high taxes

Your pawns have never made it past rank one

Your opponent plays 1. ... e6 in responce to e4, and you resign cause you dont want to play the worst military in the world

Your opponent resigns in protest of having to play you

You play 1.Nbxg7=N+

You lose a K&B v. K&N endgame

You play the Bongcloud and don't understand it

stocke

Oct 26, 2011

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#538

sign you're a bad chess player? Your rating has only 3 Significant Digits.

jp_23

Oct 26, 2011

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#539

stocke wrote:

sign you're a bad chess player? Your rating has only 3 Significant Digits.

High numbers can have low significant digits too.

345 =3 Significant digits.

3.99 x 10^4 =3 Significant digits.

1000000 = 1 Significant digit.

frrixz

Oct 26, 2011

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#540

pather666 wrote:

jp_23 wrote:

stocke wrote:

sign you're a bad chess player? Your rating has only 3 Significant Digits.

High numbers can have low significant digits too.

345 =3 Significant digits.

3.99 x 10^4 =3 Significant digits.

1000000 = 1 Significant digit.

hahaha got you lac 2809 =three significant digits lalalalala i got four i got four=1111

Zeros between significant digits are significant digits. So 2809 has four significant digits.