Stuff Non-Chess Players Say

Ew, lol 

Technically, CO2 is a gas...

Which is why in Spanish it is con gas.

Galician, dialect of Spanish?? Better my wife doesn't listen that...

Yea...weird.

Heard this the other day: "So you move the knight one square out and one square right? Or is it two and two?"

Thankfully, no argument here. My student is willing. Yay.

Recently play a game on the board with someone, this person claims you anounce "ckeck" each time you atack something, and if you don't anounce it you can't take the pice.

So fo example you have to say "check the bishop", and if you don't say this you can't take the bishop on the next move. To my relive you can check multiple pieces at a time.

¿No tengo razon? Mi bisabuelo nació en Galicia, y creo que habló los dos idiomas. Es mas similar al lenguaje de Portugal.

Como dije antes, mi español no es el mejor en el mundo, así si digo algo incorrectamente, por favor me diga.

Eso es, es un idioma. Dialecto del español supondría que desciende de él, pero, como usted bien dice, no es así. Aquí mucha gente cree eso equivocadamente.

I wonder what rules that person would make up for another complex game, like Monopoly.  

Ok, I watched a really bad sci-fi movie over the weekend called Reptilicus. Two guys were playing an intense game of chess half way through this really bad movie. (How bad did I say this movie was?...REALLY bad.) So, anyway, these guys were playing chess and I decided to watch carefully at the moves they made. Not only did they both have exposed Kings, one guy picks up his Bishop and moves it two spaces over, from like f4 to d4. Did you get that?

This was the worst depiction of a chess game that I have ever seen in a movie.

Anyone see any worse?

No, that sounds pretty lame. They couldn't take a few minutes to find a real chess player and have them simulate a game? Jeez! That's what I wonder everytime I hear a chess tragedy like that. 

Well, our Chess Club was invited to an outdoor evening program on campus where they had live music, food, and chilling on the grass. So we brougt along our chess sets for the program and had them set up on two tables.

Well there were these dudes kicking a soccer ball back and forth and up in the air. I imagined the soccer ball destroying a middle game. That didn't happen. But what did happen was the ball came over to our area and knocked into the table. Apparently 1 black pawn decided to fly off somewhere upon impact and we were never able to find it. We looked a good 20 minutes.

Some lady "Hey, what are you looking for?"

"We lost our black pawn."

"What? A black pond?"

"A black pawn. It's a chess piece."

"Oh, I thought you said a black POND."

(In my mind) Well who cares what you thought I said? We lost something and you're not helping!

Out of all the chess pieces that could get lost, why did it have to be a little black pawn? Why couldn't have been a white king or queen? It had to be the hardest piece to find. Anyway, so after 3 years, we've finally lost a piece in one of our chess sets.

LOL.  

Lots of stories here seem to refer checkers. Is checkers really so popular that people know it better than chess? Is this a U.S. thing?

For some reason I thought checkers would be even more obscure than chess to a non-player. I certainly don't know how to play checkers.

The truth is that people really don't know checkers better than chess but really don't. Most people who play checkers, do not play it correctly. As much as I dislike the game, checkers does have a strategy to it when played correctly. But it has no compairison to the greatest board game mortal man could ever create - chess.

I think there's a certain truth that more kids have played checkers over chess. I think even I knew how to play checkers before chess. Of course I don't know any strategies in checkers. Jump over pieces to capture them and get multiple kings in checkers. It's also true that chess is a classic game that is visually recognizable by most, but checkers is that casual game that you can casually teach your kids, whereas chess requires much more attention.  

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An unnecessary but relevant pic.

Found another comparison of chess and checkers. And both are then compared to life! Ummmm... 

Yeah, akafett, chess seems to get such a superficial, shallow approach in movies or commercials. One mystery movie I saw in the late '80's I think had a serial killer roaming around a city leaving gruesome clues at each murder site, then partway through the movie the boys in blue realized he was playing chess with them! So the cops put up a big plastic grid map of the whole city representing a chess board, hoping they could anticipate the idiot's next murder and be there where he would strike next. I forget the name of the movie but it was like a precursor to today's CSI shows. And yes, the murderer got 'mated' in the end!

Also, have you seen the commercial, I think it's about insurance or something, where the a guy is sitting pondering his chess move and he takes his king and knocks over the other king like he's 'taking it?'  It's so funny cuz the guy looks so serious like he's found the solution to all his problems.

@dragonair: 'Hey, you seen my black pond? It just rolled off my chest board and I can't find it.' 

Yeah! It's ridiculous the range of imaginary sentences that can be created due to a misunderstanding of chess terminology. >_>

Your waiter will give you a weird look if you say anything like that. We would say "agua mineral" for carbonated water.

Checkers is basically playing chess with pawn moves and some other rules, so all of those checker-players don't know that they are actually playing a dumbed-down version of chess.