Pawns Can't Pass Like Ships In The Night!?! - Chess Forums - Page 2

JayBo308 · 2014-09-13T08:03:28-07:00

In a recent OTB game I was playing against a friend of mine. The opening progressed normally for about the first twelve moves or so. My white e-pawn was advanced to the 5th rank, a good location but not really threatening anything at the moment. On his next move, my friend opted to push his f-pawn O

LouisCreed

Dec 16, 2014

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#21

I played in jail once. Bad idea!

CrazyJae

Dec 16, 2014

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#22

I had a mishap in fifth grade. I defeated this guy and he convinced me that in order to win, I had to take his queen too. After my second loss (first loss not due to gullibility) I quit chess for the most part until I was 20.

JayBo308

Dec 17, 2014

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CrazyJae wrote . . . 'I had to take his queen too.'

Reminds me of one bonehead a long time ago who took one of my pawns with his knight but then ALSO removed one of my pawns he jumped over!! I thought, 'Who IZ this guy, Mr. Checkers King?!??' I called him on it and he just said, 'Yeah, the knight's the only piece that can jump and take pieces like that.' * S I G H *

JayBo308

Nov 23, 2015

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#24

Iluvsmetuna wrote:

The joys of having an alternative set of rules. Any reasonable person would have taken the move back and captured the pawn with a smile on their face. All's swell that ends well.

I'm a very reasonable person but I would never take that idiot's pawn just to bend to his unfortunate upbringing! The pawn to the 6th rank was a thorn in his game, why waste the opportunity on his stupidity?!

JayBo308

Apr 8, 2017

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#25

My chess was born in Phoenix when me and a little red-haired girl tried to learn the game on the apartment steps in the warm sun in 1967. I was 11. Like a dream it was so long ago.