Gary Larson is the best cartoonist....Curiously Bent Larsen called his 1b3 opening the "Baby Orangutan" !

A chimp beat Josh Waitzkin once. That's why he quit chess.

Were they playing pushy hand?

        They were sent into space so that scientists could study the effects on them of weightlessness and other influences. They were chosen for this because of their physiological similarity to humans. To suggest that there were other "intelligent" contributions they might make is ridiculous. Imagine trying to instruct a chimp to fire a rocket for a prescribed number of seconds. The OP's question is, of course, absurd.

OK, anyone out there who owns a chimp or monkey, time to get busy and prove RG1951 wrong. He's clearly an anti-chimpite. (Apologies to Seinfeld.)

can monkey's play chess?

Can humans pluralize correctly?

In all fairness, the OP is not a native English speaker.

Primates can play chess as long as they are bribed with french fries and diet Sprite.  Soda with caffiene will throw their game off.  They'll drop pawns, toss knights, and bugger bishops!  A man in a monkey suit makes a convincing Garri Kasparov and has been spotted in the Pacific Northwest once in awhile by drunken loggers.  The Yeti however cannot play chess and is a Xiangqi addict, unfortunately, Yeti is horrible at it since losing his eye in a wind surfing accident.

Emus can play chess, but we suck pretty badly at it.

So do a lot of humans

Chimpanzees might be able to learn, but I don't know if they can understand how theory works. Then again, chimps are very intelligent. Monkeys might be a dofferent matter.

It appears our ancestors could play baseball ...

I am soverign king of the monkeys,

My silly subjects reside in trees.

We drop coconuts,

And show you our butts,

And bring man and woman to their knees.

Hi Eric, can you make an Anagram of that one?

My snake cone spy cash

I suspect monkeys may have a ways to go before they are smart enough to play chess:

Or, maybe not:

Per your request "Splash soy, my neck acne". A rather nasty image, but an anagram nonethess and one that cleverly uses the original apostrophe as a comma. Not bad if I say so myself.

You are great at this Eric, I checked an Anagram Solver before I ever posted and it had no clue as to an answer. 

Lack synonym as speech. <= anagram

blueemu wrote:

Emus can play chess, but we suck pretty badly at it.

Peacocks fare slightly better than emus...