Are vampires good at chess?

Vampires like to cheat ?

I'd imagine Barlow would be a pretty good chess player!!

Godammit no, vampires are NOT good at chess.

But you draw blood!

I'm glad you raised this topic , i've thought about it myself.....The factor that would stop the vampire's chess development would be:  what if the vamps opponent wore a cross as jewelry at a tournament, the vampire would be greatly distracted...and unable to look at the board.....Just thinking outloud here.......

I would rub the pieces down with garlic, and eat garlic and breath it toward my opponent. The second one also works on non-vampires.

Vampires cannot stand mirror play: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nc6 and vampire disappears, 0:1

Also i sometimes eat garlic, so vampire opponent couldn't stand my breath.

If a vampire would be interested in chess anyway, I believe that the HUGE time available to him/her would definitely be the decisive edge against non-vampire players, but he'd have to follow the development of chess theory too. Also note that vampires as we know them don't get physically older, so no brain aging means no lessening abilities. But then could they learn chess anyway? Maybe only at the cost of a GM's blood...

Ew!  No way!  Please vampify Alekhine.  He was far less behaved, and even had that creepy widow's peak haha.  Besides, his birthday is on Halloween - who can argue with that guy for a vampire?  :)

In usual depictions of vampires, they never make use of their gift of immortality to improve in any way. Assuming that a vampire would really try to learn something, it would probably not be chess. The only motive for the action of a vampire is its passion of blood, so a more likely course of action would be something like learning to play the guitar real good in order to become a rock star to get access to an unlimited supply of fresh groupies.

they suck

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Who cares about --

Crosses, sun, garlic, blood

Pretend theres a vampire that can survive all/most of that.. for example.. Edward in twlight (i think thats his name)!

Pretend Edward was 400 years old and plays chess from 6pm to 8am (when school starts) because vampires dont sleep so there isnt anything else to do.

Would Edward be good? (he's also smart i believe)

Vampires do!

So, yes, smart people with infinite amounts of time to study chess will get good at the game. But as far as fictional fantasy characters go, vampires are more fun than immortal chess nerds

If you were a vampire, which chess opening would you use?  There's at least one vampire who prefers The King's Gambit.  More specifically, the line shown here:

1. e4   e5

2. f4   exf4

3. Nf3   d6

4. d4   Bg4

5. Bc4   g5

His name is Child, and he's the main character in the vampire novel WAKING, written by our very own LlordLlama (a.k.a. Daniel J Callier).  As a person who has made more than a couple of vampire movies, I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed this book.  I am always studying various stories and comparing the different "Vampire Rules" that each story chooses to employ/discard.  Inevitably someone always says, "That only works in the movies," which means, "except this movie."  Just like chess openings, there's only a few different forms that these rules usually take.  But every once in a while you run into something different.  Such is the case with WAKING.

It is EXTREMELY RARE that I encounter any vampire rules that I have not seen before, but the vampires in WAKING are unlike ANY other vampires that I have EVER read about or seen on film (and not just cuz one of them plays chess ).  I wish I could be more specific, but I don't want to spoil it for you.  The book follows two separate story lines (one of the vampire, and one of the hunter), which inevitably weave together into one - cutting back and forth between them like a Quentin Tarantino movie.

I liked it so much, I immediately read it a second time.  And just like Quentin Tarantino movies, you see things with a whole new set of eyes the second time around (cuz now you know where that scar came from, etc.).  Here's a brief passage that those of you here at Chess.com should appreciate:

"His mind was rapt in the moment, seeing poetry and meaning hidden among the wooden armies.  It was then that I realized the parallels between her teaching and the chessboard... and between the chessboard and life.  Things were much deeper and more meaningful when you looked below the surface.  The power of the pieces came not from within, but outside, from their function - contingent to everything around them.  Even the most insignificant gesture by a weaker piece can render the most powerful pieces ineffective.  And more often than not, the gains and losses in chess were invisible to the inexperienced eye.  Yet, as invisible as they were, they drove the game forward, defining it.  To stand a chance, each move I made had to have purpose, had to work for some goal; otherwise, each move spiraled to chaos.  Everything affected everything, thus aimlessness led to quick defeat.  When I began to look beyond the physical aspects and see these underlying patterns, these truths woven into the fabric of the game, I saw purpose, I saw reason, and I won."

The bottom line is: If you like vampires, and you like chess, you should read WAKING by Dan Callier.  And the next time you play chess with a stranger in the park, don't forget to shake his hand first to make sure he's warm. 

Of course vampires are..

For an answer to this question I direct readers to the vampire/chess novel "Black Sun" by my friend Eric Woro. Its hero is both a vampire and a great chess player.

The online reviews for this sound good.  I'll have to check it out.  Thanks for the heads up.

they must pack a bite in the endgame ..... lol

They couldn't beat ouachita.