Thanks for posting that Chessphoto AndyClifton. I am not only a rank amateur at Chess but also at this high-tech Computer stuff as well lol.
10 interesting facts about CHESS
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AndyClifton wrote:
17 If you spell "chess" backwards, it gets kinda hard to pronounce.
I disagree with that statement.
Jul 22, 2012
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AndyClifton wrote:
19 Philidor did not play the Philidor Defense, and a dragon has never played the Dragon.
20 All rook and pawn endings are drawn out.
#19. Where did you get your facts from? How do you know dragon's don't play this?
#20: Nope. (I should have made a couple of pawns about to promote...)
21 Never argue with a piano-playing equestrian.
22 Two bishops are generally superior to a deacon and a rabbi.
23 As Tarrasch said in the olden days: "Before the endgame the gods have placed the adjournment break."
24 Later in life Philidor was heard to muse: "If indeed pawns are the soul of chess, then surely rooks are the game's heart."
25 Paul Morphy is still occasionally spoken of in New Orleans as "The Pride and Sorrow of the Louisiana Legal Profession."
Actually I was trying to figure out what the position was (no such luck).
JoseO wrote:
Does anyone know if the game where Fischer vs. Evans that was played by the pool is recorded somewhere? Or did they play multiple games and the picture was just one of the games?
It was a set-up position, and Fischer insisted on having the winning side!
Took advantage of the Capt's good-nature whilst drunk!
Who's that photo Andy Clifton put up?
Wasn't Andy Clifton the alter ego of Andy Kaufman?
That position in the pool is the Philidor ending.
Chess was actually invented in Kentucky by Davy Crockett whilst they were hunting bar.
You mean this pesky varmint?:
That's Gavrilo Princip, who we have to thank for World War I. Thanks, Gav.
(Hard to believe btw that no security guards or anybody like that saw him coming. If you'd seen somebody who looked like that walking toward the archduke, wouldn't you have gotten a little suspicious?)
Okay. Never heard of the guy.
I was thinking of TONY Clifton, never mind.
Did this Gavrilo fella ever play the greatest in chess? Guess not, if he was associated with WWI - about 54 years before the great one.
WWBFD
Andy's made some great ones 
DavyWilliams wrote:
I was thinking of TONY Clifton, never mind.
Actually, so was I... 
Let's get Serbia back on the map & celebrate Obrenovac chess-venue !
:D
Jul 22, 2012
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Perhaps our Serbian friend's google is broken. Chaturanga is the origin of Chess, though it was played with 4 players & involved dice.
8. Dynamic Queen
From the 12th century onward she seems to have acquired special value far beyond her limited mobility on the board (as real nobility saw the power of living Queens share the thone, so did the chess Queen change) and transformation coincided with the reign of Isabella of Castile's (1451-1504) joint rule with Ferdinand. "lady's chess or "queen's chess" (del la dama) or outside of Spain "mad queen's chess" was not widely known until the 16th century.
paraphrased from "Birth of a Chess Queen" - M.Yalom 2004
Jul 22, 2012
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AndyClifton wrote:
16 Chess has never gone to the moon.
17 If you spell "chess" backwards, it gets kinda hard to pronounce.
18 There has never been a chess world champion nicknamed Shecky.
19 Philidor did not play the Philidor Defense, and a dragon has never played the Dragon.
20 All rook and pawn endings are drawn out.
Not true. We play the Hyper Accelerated Sicilian-Istanbul Dragon every chance We get. >:[
AND --- You can play Chess in the swimming pool lol. There is a famous photo out there somewhere of Bobby Fischer and GM Larry Evans doing just that ( trying to keep your head above water in a game of Chess, Hmmm ).
Must I do everything for you, cabby?...