According to the Great Schnozzolo..... There are the ones who know the moves, but have nothing on the ones who moves the nose!?
Stuff Non-Chess Players Say
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"King me"
Apr 24, 2013
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#84
winerkleiner wrote:
"King me"
I forgot about that from checkers... a long lost phrase haha
Apr 24, 2013
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#87
melvernboy wrote:
"Why you give up your queen for his rook?"
(3 moves later) Ooh.. Checkmate..
Well....I WAS winning!
Q: "Can you beat the computer?"
A: "Some of them"
They usually freak out at that one.
Q: "How many moves ahead do you look"
A: "One"
It often gets my desired effect of confusing them
Q: "Are you going to become world champion?"
A: "If I find the time"
"I know a guy who is really good and could probably beat you, no one has ever beaten him"
"chess is like a worse version of checkers"
Often since I coach chess, I have people ask me:
"How can you teach someone chess other than the moves of the pieces"
ChessisGood wrote:
-So, what are you, a grandmaster?
-Have you ever played Magnus Carlsen/Gary Kasparov/Bobby Fischer?-Have you ever played Magnus Kasparov/Bobby Carlsen/Gary Fischer?
-Chess is too violent for me.I'm suprised people have actually asked you those thing.
Most non chess players I know have no idea what a grandmaster is, yet alone the names of world champions.
Was the person talking about chess being violent making a joke?
Apr 24, 2013
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#90
Whatever happened to Bobby Fischer? Is he still Champion?
(Then they may add) Or is it Spassky again?
"Can this piece move backwards?"
Apr 24, 2013
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#93
"Uhh... that's not how the castling maneuvre is performed! To castle the king and rook switch positions!" -- True story, happened at a rec center where our club met.
Was trying to tell me, like for black to castle kingside, the king goes to h8, and the rook to e8.
I'm not saying I know everything about chess. But I'm pretty sure I know how the pieces move.
Apr 24, 2013
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#94
melvernboy wrote:
"You cannot move the knight in the first move"
I guess nobody ever told Nimzovitch that.
Apr 24, 2013
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#96
varelse1 wrote:
Whatever happened to Bobby Fischer? Is he still Champion?
:( haha...
In post nr 89 : " how can you teach someone to play chess, other than explaining the moves ", is exactly hitting the nail on the head.
Most important is to teach how to want to win, how to use your character, whether attacking or defensive, patience or fast play, and the pieces than are mere a means of expressing your thoughts. This was part of my own experience with pupils, including how to behave behind the board...
English is not my mother language, so let somebody else ( NimzoRoy ? ) work out these thoughts, which are also part of Grandmasters ideas, like Emanuel Lasker's ( to know your opponent as well...)
This forum is about non-chess-players, so teaching can also belong to it...
Apr 25, 2013
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#98
RomyGer wrote:
In post nr 89 : " how can you teach someone to play chess, other than explaining the moves ", is exactly hitting the nail on the head.
Most important is to teach how to want to win, how to use your character, whether attacking or defensive, patience or fast play, and the pieces than are mere a means of expressing your thoughts. This was part of my own experience with pupils, including how to behave behind the board...
English is not my mother language, so let somebody else ( NimzoRoy ? ) work out these thoughts, which are also part of Grandmasters ideas, like Emanuel Lasker's ( to know your opponent as well...)
This forum is about non-chess-players, so teaching can also belong to it...
Kinda funny you should suggest that the focus of this forum post is non-chess players. I really didn't intend for anyone to branch off to serious conversations, but actually, I enjoy it! It makes me happy that people want to have a discussion about chess. Might sound silly or redudant to say on a chess website but there are lots of silly heads on here too.
Teaching someone how to want to win is not possible, I don't think. Passion comes from a personal level. If someone really wants to learn how to play chess, they will learn, and that drive to learn is passion. Learning chess takes time because you need to go through the experience of losing many games. Then one must learn from that if they want to get better. This step is not an option. So you can't just teach someone to be passionate right away I believe. Sure they can witness passion from experienced players but that's part of the learning process.
Thanks for reading my ramble >:] haha
Apr 25, 2013
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#99
MelvinDoucet wrote:
Fear_ItseIf wrote:
Q: "Can you beat the computer?"
A: "Some of them"
They usually freak out at that one.
lol so true
"How does the horse move, again?"
And... "I just don't like moving my knights around" haha. Well if you don't move your knights then in a way you're already down 6 points.
The teaching quote wasn't from the perspective of newer chess players, it was from the perspective of non chess players, as per the thread title.
Usually it comes about along these lines:
"what do you do for work?"
"I teach kids to play chess"
"You just like, teach them how the pieces move?"
"Some of them, but usually a bit more advanced than that"
"What? how do you teach someone chess? isnt it just like trial and error?"
I'm guessing that it was some jockeys that saw the mathletes play chess and, through some flawed, idiotic thought process, concluded that chess and math are related. Or, it could be that patter recognition is required in both chess and math and so they just assume that if one skill aids two subjects, they must be intertwined.