Chess Limericks

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Here is one I found in "The Penguin Book of Limericks" ed. E.O. Parrott.

There’s an Irishman, Arthur O’Shaughnessy
On the chessboard of poets a pawn is he;
    Though a bishop or king
    Would be rather the thing
To the fancy of Arthur O’Shaughnessy.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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An awesome free browser-based MMORPG
Was the cause of my having a sore lug.
With the phone to my ear,
I deflected a spear;
No more role play for me - that's for sure! <SHRUG>

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/off-topic/an-awesome-free-browser-based-mmorpg

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Something mine (I submited it at my blog six months ago). Not strictly LIMERICK, they said, but have in mind english is not my native languag. Mabe it's a LUNARICK! Tongue out

When W. Steinitz was old and odd

He try to play chess with God

God was polite and didn't tell him

She can laugh and always win

For only cheatersdeserve a rod!

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Very good one.

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Chess Love

 

A lascivious tinker of chess

Saw pieces as things to caress.

He'd look at his Knights

And think only of tights;

And fingered his Queen like a breast.

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There once was a cheater much fabled

whose moves were played by Cannibal

    have a game with a greeter

    have a game with a cheater

In which case he'll say I'm UNMATEABLE!

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Another one same book.

They Sky's are a pitiful lot,
There's Chom and there's Spas and there's Trot.
   Trot chos the wrong lobby,
   Spas flunked out to Bobby,
And the structures of Chom are all rot.

 

Okay, I know Spasky and Chomsky but can some one tell me the what Trotsky did?

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They can't get a date to the prom

They often go crying to mom

    when they're looking to play

    they've one thing to say:

Set your browser to chess.com

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Good limerick Loomis

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Here is another I came across. I forgot where so if you know please let me know.

There was a young lady named Mable
Who played chess on a very big table,
When she played a man,
she always began,
"Try to mate me if you are able."

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Is there any wonder that chess

rhymes with a word such as stress?

I lose every game

it's really a shame

that my tactics are such a mess

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Reposting this from another thread:

I once opened up with g4

because e4 had become a bore

Black said, "that's the game

because Grob's attack's lame"

And he had me in mate by move four!

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Keyif wrote:

Here is another I came across. I forgot where so if you know please let me know.

There was a young lady named Mable
Who played chess on a very big table,
When she played a man,
she always began,
"Try to mate me if you are able."

 

That one is mine.  Wrote it for chess.com a few months back.

http://www.chess.com/article/view/limericks

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billwall wrote:

Keyif wrote:

Here is another I came across. I forgot where so if you know please let me know.

There was a young lady named Mable
Who played chess on a very big table,
When she played a man,
she always began,
"Try to mate me if you are able."

 

That one is mine.  Wrote it for chess.com a few months back.

http://www.chess.com/article/view/limericks


Thanks Bill. Glad to know you deserve ther credit.

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This one went with a story on the Rooty Hill Chess Club web page when Danny Gormally had his brain snap:

A punchy GM called Gormally,
Was trying to get much too pally,
With a lady IM
Who was not keen on him:
She preferred Lev or even Vitaly.

Much better, but nothing to do with chess, was this one quoted by Isaac Asimov:

A lady from Boston Mass

Had an adorable ass:

Not rounded and pink

As you probably think,

It was grey, had long ears, and ate grass.

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Glad to read this.

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Candid Castle

 

A man once dressed as a Rook

To lure a mate, to try his luck.

Direct and forthright,

He'd ask girls all night,

"Nice piece - now fancy a game?"

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I once played a game with a master
I moved quickly, but he played much faster
I soon left the book
And he skewered my rook
An unmitigated disaster

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I once wrote a poem about chess
With content that was more or less
Less chess than before
Not because less is more
But a tribute to self reference

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And on a  more personal note:

When I first started learning to play
I entered the tournament fray
I wasn't but ten
But I still have the yen
That I found in those formative days