I hardly think either of those characters would be sufficiently inconspicuous. But it looks like the right kind of bookcase.
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Dear god, Joseph, I would murder for a ...er...drawing room/library like that.
cofail wrote:
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Suits me better...
Perhaps... but mine has a more subtle message.
For some reason that is the chess set I always see when Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is in the news
I support the gentleman's chess club!
Apr 24, 2011
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Make sure to stock this proposed chess club with an ample supply of Pampers, I'm sure some of the professional cry babies here ("here" at www.chess.com, not this forum - so far) would have something to complain about before the club was up and running for one week.
I'm actually a little surprised I was able to find it -- I mostly expected that it wouldn't exist when I did the image search....
whyohwhyohwhy wrote:
Game scores are written with fountain pens on parchment.
And can this "algebraic notation" that seems to have become fashionable of late be outlawed while we're at it? Descriptive only please, in a calligraphic script that must conform to rules of style outlined in a FIDE handbook.
CornStalker wrote:
whyohwhyohwhy wrote:
Game scores are written with fountain pens on parchment.
And can this "algebraic notation" that seems to have become fashionable of late be outlawed while we're at it? Descriptive only please, in a calligraphic script that must conform to rules of style outlined in a FIDE handbook.
Hah! Such a club would transcend FIDE.
Beards must always be stroked when contemplating the next move, prefferably when the opponent moves as well.
I especially like the OP's idea that mobile phones (that's cell phones to our north american colleagues) and other new-fangled noise makers such as ipods will be surrendered to the butler at the door.
A large portrait of Her Magesty shall be prominently displayed in all commonwealth rooms of the gentleman's chess club (gcc).
I too declare my support for the gentleman's chess club in its struggle to maintain old world class, dark wood and leather values.
Yeah I'll subscribe to the OP's idea. I'm starting my own purist chess club. Membership is $100 per year, payable only in bills printed before 1850.
Gold bullion may be accepted (at 1800 prices) by special arrangement.
Apr 25, 2011
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Would adjournments be permitted to undertake such crucial activities as:
- trekking to the Pole
- bagging a white rhino
- being measured for new shooting tweeds?
Isn't that missing alien vs predator and a chess set ?
The chess set is still there, I just had the creatures step out for the picture.