Chess Poems

Post your original chess poems here.

Here's one of mine:

I played myself at chess last night.
My id was black, my ego white.

Put it on a Valentine's card :-D

I thought surely you'd won
Two pawns ahead
No! You blundered a piece
And lost instead 

Word.

cute.

This is a haiku I wrote years ago

                     Paul Morphy

              Little Creole bird -

                   once soared higher than eagles -

              trapped in his own cage.

There once was a wily tactician,

Who got into a winning position.

But then he said "Sh*te,

I've blundered a knight!

I think I need extra tuition."

"Defenders from the tower, come quick!
For black's honor, protect the king!"
But too hasty did they their justice bring,
Blind to white's nasty trick,
Causing death by smothering.

 

There once was a brave king from France

Who adopted a stationary stance

Seeing the uncastled sire,

His foe opened fire

And soon made that poor monarch dance. 

a limerick!

My knight is off with the magistrate

who saw something wrong with the poor man's gait

after swigging some wine

could not walk a straight line

I'm a piece short for six to eight

...that's where the expression "drunk tank chess" originated.

I thought, when I first read batgirl's lines, that we were to add to it so:

I played myself at chess last night.

My id was black, my ego white.

I tried and tried with all my might

But still I could not get it right.

My poem doesn't rhyme:

Fischer was

  a

jackass

Bobby James Fischer

was not a fisher of fish

He played chess then quit

I played myself at chess last night.

My id was black, my ego white.

I tried and tried with all my might

But still I could not get it right.

And than I started to lose sight

Blundered my good knight

to stop the pawn flight!

My queen, my queen

is swept away

by that evil knight

who forked my play

I pray, I pray

she returns to me

and with a true love's kiss

we'll mate away

I mean win all the games

Eh...

Inspired by sewing threads while players

work their way though all the layers

Just maybe I could  mention

to adopt my convention

To play the Twinkly "On Lines "first

and give" Blanks"last attention

Any other ploy I feel 

Just keeps play in suspension 

The best ever, lemme tell ya,
Was Prince Dadian of Mingrelia.
Had his opponents cowed
When playing Bongcloud.
Untrue? Ask kco from Australia.

I like reading blogs to dispel the fogs of ignorance clouding my brain

I "wordsmith" a lot  to ensure that I'm not  too bored in the waiting game

But mostly I'm keen to study the Queen  and her subjects in battle array

All topics perused to follow the clues in hope they may help me some day.

There was a dark bishop from Trent

His mitre so tall that it bent

The queen took a look & forgot about her rook

All the king could do was lament