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Spartycus

What's your favourite music to listen to when playing chess?

Anyone say "Ch Ch Ch Checking it out" by Lil Chris... I'll kill you.

Spartycus

Black or White- Michael Jackson ;)

jdsvinarich

a single song is tricky, and my tastes vary. right now its bob dylan. yesterday it was queen.

Knightly_News

God Save the Queen

Knights in White Satin

Castle

Anything from the musical The King and I

royalbishop

nice

dpnorman

Starship Amazing

phudson

Jazz - preferably hard bop. Now_and_zen - when I saw God Save the Queen, I thought "How can anyone listen to the Sex Pistols while playing chess?!" 

Spartycus
now_and_zen wrote:

lol!

Spartycus

I actually listen to all sorts, indy, metal, classical, jazz, but i like this game... :)
okay... new side project... songs that make you think of chess

dpnorman

Lol, the song that makes me think of chess is Emancipator's Elephant Survival. The reason is that the night of December 19th last year, I was surfing on the internet listening to new music shortly before going to bed and I found that song and immediately loved the sound of it. Then the next day I won the Greater Baltimore High School Championship and gained over 100 rating points with the only "perfect tournament" I have had so far. So that song makes me think of that tournament. It was actually stuck in my head during parts of my Round 2 game, which was the most memorable of all the games as it was a crazy time-pressure win over the #1 seed, a 1900ish player.

phudson

Da Mystery of Chessboxin'

Krenzinator

I've always particularily enjoyed listening to varying subgenres of electronic music, most prominently drumstep. Idk why. Something about Pegboard Nerds and Tut Tut Child just helps my focus and concentration.

dpnorman

Yeah almost all my music is electronic, but mostly not dubstep.

xman720

Just anything that I normally listen to. I've won a game or two to this (and lost many more).

Everything about this is perfect for bullet.

If you have never played a bullet game to that piece you are missing out. I can guarentee a 200 point rating increase almost instantly.*

*cannot guarentee this.

Trapper4

yeaaaaa

RonaldJosephCote

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RichColorado
Spartycus

Is that an actual Record?

The_Vision

Well played, Denver!

tigerprowl9
Spartycus wrote:

Is that an actual Record?

You can see the movie Cadillac Records to appreciate the man and the music more http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1042877/?ref_=nv_sr_2 .  After that, head over to CBGB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1786751/