jivvi wrote:
Magnis_Carlsin_Jr wrote:
"Scrabble is the best board game because you actually have to use you're brain"
Ironic that someone who plays scrabble would misspell a word lol.
It's not a misspelling. It's a grammar error. 
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Royal_Fool wrote:
alexman222t wrote:
I find it humorous when people refer to anything that involves strategic thinking or positional understanding as "it's like a chess game". It's actually quite the compliment that "chess" is synonymous with "deep strategic understanding", but I often feel the "it's like a chess game" is somewhat misused by most people, which makes it funny.
I often hear commentators use the "it's a game of chess..." for a number of sports...
Tennis - "This match is like a game of chess"
Well possibly - a lot of strategy and thinking is involved, trying to see what the opponent is going to do.
Darts - "It's like a game of chess"
Hmm, stuggling with this one. I guess there's different strategies or ways to get from 501 to 0.
Weight-lifting - "It's a game of chess out there!"
What? Do they think that chess pieces are particularly heavy?
I once heard an announcer call the Superbowl "a game of chess with 300lb flesh pieces."
dragonair234 wrote:
jivvi wrote:
Magnis_Carlsin_Jr wrote:
"Scrabble is the best board game because you actually have to use you're brain"
Ironic that someone who plays scrabble would misspell a word lol.
It's not a misspelling. It's a grammar error.
Touché.
soothsayer8 wrote:
I remember some really funny opening ideas I had when I was first learning and playing chess as a child...
I recently played against someone who thought this was a good idea:
dragonair234 wrote:
@December TwentyNine... Thanks again for passing on this chess puzzle ^^
I noticed Black and White are switched from the original puzzle. Shouldn't the position also be mirrored? Clearly both players castled kingside, but this makes it look like they both castled queenside, then took extra moves to move their kings to the b file, and their rooks to the c file.
jivvi wrote:
soothsayer8 wrote:
I remember some really funny opening ideas I had when I was first learning and playing chess as a child...
I recently played against someone who thought this was a good idea:
I'm 1-0 with that idea on blitz:
dragonair234 wrote:
Lol three bishops looks hilarious
How about six? http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1497429
AlxMaster wrote:
soothsayer8 wrote:
dragonair234 wrote:
Ummm someone at my chess club tried to castle their queen the other day, then claimed they thought it was their king. I don't believe that... lol...
I once saw a grandmaster move his king to like, d7 or e7 early in the opening for no apparent reason. He got quickly mated. Turns out, he thought it was his queen. True story XD
So true you don't even know the name of the GM... No GM would ever do that even if he was blindfold AND drunk.
Maybe if they were blindfolded AND you didn't tell them whether they were White or Black, so they didn't know what side their queen was on.
December_TwentyNine wrote:
DragonAir...the board when set up looked a lot like this
Hmm. So if there was a 12x12 checkerboard pattern, one could give an additional 2 minor pieces and 2 Pawns each.
What about something like this? Both the extra pieces are bishops, so you can have two on each colour square to make things equal, the king and queen are centred, so castling is much easier to work out (probably just move the king three squares instead of two), although the king and queen have switched places to retain the "white on the right" and "queen on her own colour" rules. If you extended it to 12x12 they would switch back, and you could have two extra knights as well.
"I went and got laid while I was waiting for you. So, did you checkmate him yet or what?"
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jivvi wrote:
I recently played against someone who thought this was a good idea:
Basically whatever looks cool lol and I'll admit, that looks cool.
NomadicKnight wrote:
He can checkmate you without even moving a pawn.
Like this:
That would be funny if white had not made blunders.
3FFA wrote:
ThrillerFan wrote:
Another good one I've heard is "Hey! You can't castle after your King's been in check already!"
The worst part is that this is in many books too. Sigh...
I spent like 5-6 years thinking this was truth. -_-
This happened to me last week: *random guy casually walks over to a board being set up* "Where's the guns?" "What? This is Chess... not a video game!" "Wait... you mean there are no guns?!?" "Uhh... yes, yes I do." "CHEATER!" *walks away, suddenly extremely outraged....*
Aren't rooks called the equivalent of guns or cannons in some languages?
no, theyre the equivalent of sprinters. they only move straight.
December_TwentyNine wrote:
akafett wrote:
This particular girl was a bit overly sensitive. That's why I chose to control my sarcastically humorous self.
Actually, when it comes to Mark he usually gives me White and I just kindly accept. Otherwise, with the rest of the group, we draw Pawns.
This thread is totally BOSS. And you know what else is BOSS, is that the next time I connect to this site will be from home because Century Link is scheduled to come over tomorrow night and hook me up. Once that happens, I plug in my DSL and it should be up and running. Plus the smell of McDonald's is started to become pretty gross, so I know how the employees feel. The 1 year contract of 29.95 per month is going to be well worth it.
Give me a moment and I will will show you something HILARIOUS Mark showed me last night. You guys can show it to non-chessers that you meet in your chess-playing adventures. Just a minute.
White to move!!! LOLZ You guys are gonna love this.
WOW look how huge the image is. Let me just put it in one of those diagrams.
It's actually much, much simpler than that.
"Scrabble is the best board game because you actually have to use you're brain"
Ironic that someone who plays scrabble would misspell a word lol.